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That was the idea behind Stephanie Wilkinson's recent weekend at the Mirbeau Inn & Spa in the Adirondacks with her college friends Elisabeth and Jennifer. The three traveled separately from Lexington, Va., Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, leaving a total of six children under 7 behind at home. "In our crazy, busy lives, I feel as if we have no real time with our friends," Wilkinson says. "It seems the only way to maintain a friendship is to go away with them...
...Protestant missionaries, Barth grew up in France, Jordan, Israel, Canada and five cities in the United States (currently Fairfax, Va., is home). Though he’s enjoyed each, the “beautiful, hospitable people of Jordan” left the biggest impression on Barth, so much so that he’s applied for a Rockefeller fellowship to work in a Jordan orphanage next year...
...Wagner herself has proved to be one of the big fish in the Harvard pond. Despite coming from a small high school in Virginia Beach, Va., Wagner has been on the varsity Alpine skiing team since sophomore year. “There have been instances in races when I thought, ‘I might die now,’” she says, covering her face with her hands...
DIED. HAL WALKER, 70, first African-American correspondent for CBS News; of complications from prostate cancer; in Reston, Va. A New York State public-relations executive when CBS hired him in 1963, Walker covered the riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy and the Iranian hostage crisis during more than three decades in TV news...
Barbara Erlandson was cruising along the information superhighway when she spotted her dream home on eRealty.com Erlandson, a marketing consultant in Leesburg, Va., saw images of a 200-year-old stucco house with hardwood floors and three fireplaces. That evening she drove by the house and, when she got home, dropped an e-mail to an agent at eRealty. The next day she visited the place with the agent and soon made an offer. A week after closing, she received a rebate check from eRealty for $4,250, equal to 1% of the purchase price...