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...American has always led me to believe early man in America came from Asia, as one theory posits in your story "Who Were the First Americans?" [March 13]. As a youngster I saw a picture of an Eskimo girl in a book, and my younger sister looked like her twin. When I flew into Buffalo, N.Y., on business, the cabdriver who picked me up thought I was from the Indian reservation up the river. When I was relocating my family from one Chicago suburb to another, a moving-company worker appeared to be Japanese American, so I asked...
...Georgina Cox know exactly where their children are. Well, their bodies, at least. Piers, 14, is holed up in his bedroom--eyes fixed on his computer screen--where he has been logged onto a MySpace chat room and AOL Instant Messenger (IM) for the past three hours. His twin sister Bronte is planted in the living room, having commandeered her dad's iMac--as usual. She, too, is busily IMing, while chatting on her cell phone and chipping away at homework...
...remember Spiderman oh so well! The movie came out when my twin sons were 7 and all I heard about for weeks was " When can we see Spiderman? " as they jumped around their bedroom with their wrists extended, leaping nimbly from web to web. As for most seven year olds, being a superhero was an important and consuming undertaking. My sons wore their bath towels as capes, referred to the basement as the Bat Cave, and had even gone so far as to rename the ice cream parlor with 32 flavors " Batman and Robins' ." So I knew that skipping Spiderman...
...about 90% of the country's shoes are made in nonescript industrial factories that dot the velvety, verdant landscape. The iffy weather and impending rain don't bother Diego Della Valle, 52. As the president and CEO of Tod's S.p.A., he's used to climbing into his silver twin-engine Dolphin helicopter after lunch at Villa Brancadoro?his 17th century hilltop residence in the town of Casette d'Ete, where he lives with his wife Barbara Pistilli and their son Filippo, 8?and zipping over to Ancona, where he usually boards his Falcon 2000 and jets off to Paris...
This isn’t the first time Alwaleed’s generosity has been questioned and even rejected. Rudolph W. Giuliani, while mayor of New York City, rejected Alwaleed’s pledge of $10 million to the Twin Towers Fund based on Alwaleed’s supposedly pro-Palestinian statement in response to the attacks...