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...unwanted donations. As higher gas prices force nonprofits to cut back on home pickups, USAgain is filling a niche. "We have to empty some of the boxes every day," says CEO Mattias Wallander, 33. "And we're not competing with anyone," Jorgensen says, "because there's so much being thrown...
...camper who was so frank about her incipient puberty also said that a visitor to the Lake Como resort twice touched her leg in the pool. (Camp wasn't in session; the girl had been visiting a relative who lives at Lake Como full time.) The man was thrown out. Says the girl's mother: "Kids here are taught to talk about it. They immediately tell." But might the man have been emboldened because he saw the girl naked? As America's nudists continue to thrive, they will have to grapple with that question. They may have learned...
...journey to womanhood. That she is simultaneously on the road to one-name multimedia stardom might explain some of the giggling. After selling 11.7 million albums (according to Nielsen SoundScan) with girl group Destiny's Child and scooping up the only bits of critical praise thrown near last summer's dreadful Austin Powers in Goldmember, Beyonce is right now making her move from ensemble player to center stage. Her first solo album, Dangerously in Love, arrives June 24 with enormous commercial expectations, and in September she makes her debut as a romantic lead in The Fighting Temptations opposite Cuba Gooding...
...should be signed before the hall is rented or the invitations are sent out. If it's done too close to the wedding date, pressure on a spouse to sign (rather than face the humiliation of being stood up at the altar) could be enough to have the agreement thrown out in court. --By Jean Chatzky and Jonah Freedman
...trust inherent in the physician-patient relationship is severely damaged. Working 10-to-12-hour days (plus nights and weekends on call) and constantly making life-and-death decisions are stressful enough without having to worry about lawsuits. It is easy to understand why many of my colleagues have thrown in the towel. The next time you get sick, you may have to call a lawyer because there might not be any doctors left. ROBERT J. YAES, M.D. Gaithersburg...