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...drive from her home. If there is any danger of her becoming a skating diva, her three elder brothers will dispel it. "They don't really pay attention to what I'm doing," she said during a break in her training last summer. Nate, a firefighter, learned about his sister's Axel feat last year only when a buddy in the firehouse saw the replay on ESPN and called him over...
...those who are crossing, the traveling has become more arduous. The first time Gabriel, one of the guests at the Bridgehampton quinceańera, crossed the border in 1990, he left Tijuana at 6 p.m. and reached his sister in Los Angeles by 8 a.m. the next day. But after the border crackdowns of the mid-1990s, he has had to seek out new routes. In 1999 he flew from Mexico City to Montreal and went to a random downtown McDonald's, where he thought he could bump into Hispanics. If he found some Mexicans there, he reasoned, one of them...
Even playing cards or games at home was practically a contact sport. "It was always kind of 'last man standing' stuff," says Sheila, his older sister by five years. "Being the only boy, Billy didn't want to get beaten by his dumb sister, and I certainly didn't want to get beaten by my dorky brother." Being into sports, says Sheila, who played on the tennis team at Yale, taught the young Fords a sense of meritocracy. "It didn't matter who you were," she says. "You either played well or you didn...
...tests, which showed that the children had contracted the deadly h5n1 strain of bird flu that has killed about half of those in Asia whose infections have been reported to the World Health Organization (who). By then it was too late; Mehmet Ali died on Jan. 1 and his sister four days later, setting off the latest upsurge of fear that the lethal virus might be invading Europe. The virus has already crept stealthily into the four corners of Turkey. As a stopover on migratory bird routes, the country has known for months that it was vulnerable to the natural...
...Rumor,” a romantic comedy with the improbable premise that the story behind “The Graduate” was real, and that Aniston is the granddaughter of the original Mrs. Robinson. Sandvoss portrayed the fiancé of Aniston’s character’s sister, played by Mena Suvari. “I had to play a likeably clueless rich guy. There wasn’t much to work with,” he says. In his next film, “Price to Pay,” produced by Brad Wyman...