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...Lesley Spoor and Chris Lassiter got engaged the night before Thanksgiving. The couple thought about calling their families immediately, but instead decided to wait a day and surprise everyone at Thanksgiving dinner...
...problem, of course, was Facebook. The morning after the big night, Spoor changed her relationship status. "I got all giddy since I'm old and engaged for the first time," says Spoor of her switch from "in a relationship" to "engaged." "I thought it had to be confirmed by [my fiancé] before it would update, though. Apparently...
...wife of a guy who went to high school with Spoor's fiancé - a woman Spoor barely knew - was the first to post a congratulatory message on Spoor's Facebook wall. Spoor realized her mistake and deleted the message, but by then it was too late; her future in-laws had seen the message, and the status update, and called to ask what was going on. How do you explain to your family that you told the Internet you just got engaged before you told them? "It caused a huge fight," she says...
...took up flying at 50. Vinson takes her three grandkids, ages 4 to 13, aloft regularly. From toddlerhood, they have loved it. "Years later," Vinson says, "my granddaughter would talk about flying right through clouds and how they were not solid but soft like smoke." The first time Gary Spoor, 48, took up Garrett, 4, the boy was transfixed. "Look, Grandpa," he called, "there's a train! Look--cows!" "It makes me feel 10 feet tall to bring that kind of joy to him," says the power-line superintendent from Kansas City...
...human lineage. Or it may be part of a branch leading to Homo rudolfensis, a species with a strikingly similar face that lived in East Africa between 2.4 million and 1.8 million years ago. "You find something beautiful and new, but the conclusion is you actually know less," says Spoor. "But we're getting there...