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...members. But if you're a single who treasures your unmarried state, beware. TCE is so skilled at creating compatible pairings that at least 800 of its 16,000 clients since 1982 have become permanent partners. Neither Sherry Winder, 60, a divorced ice-skating teacher from Arlington, Va., nor David Cook, 64, a divorced computer programmer from Colorado Springs, Colo., had any desire to remarry. Both stated in their TCE profiles that they were willing to share a room with a member of the opposite sex but sought platonic relationships only--separate beds, please. Alas, the two were wed Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Going Solo | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...Paul Kaplowitz, a pediatric endocrinologist with the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Va., explains, "We've known for a long time that very overweight girls tend to mature earlier, and very thin girls, such as anorexics, tend to mature later than normal. We think mildly overweight girls may be maturing early as well." Kaplowitz emphasizes that the correlation is merely statistical; not every girl with a little extra baby fat will develop breasts early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teens Before Their Time | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...might not be taken care of properly or might be shuffled in and out of the unloving social-service system? RU 486 allows women to make a very hard, very controversial decision in a private and personal manner, the way it should be. LAUREN E. PETREE Blacksburg, Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

Rich, who was editorial chair of The Crimson in 1970, went on to found a weekly newspaper in Richmond, Va. He said he wrote about everything from "school board meetings to senior proms for Seventeen magazine" before working at The New York Times...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NY Times Writer Relates Life's Mission | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...there at all was something of an astonishment. But in his three years as chief of the agency, the former National Security Council aide has rewritten his job description. Tenet is far less deskbound than his predecessors, ready to leave the security of the Langley, Va., headquarters for the action of the field. And though he's been working to clean up the inside of the agency--helping it adjust to post-cold war spying missions--he's also been a dramatic outside presence. President Clinton, for example, regularly calls on Tenet to chat with Arafat, relying on a loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsmaker: The Diplo-Spy | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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