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Margus' nightmare started when he and his wife Vicki still had three boys in diapers, and his second eldest, Jarrett, then 18 months, developed difficulty walking and his speech slurred. At first doctors thought the cause was mild cerebral palsy. Then around his 18-month mark, Margus' next eldest boy, Quinn, started developing the same symptoms as Jarrett's, which suggested that the problem was genetic. The boys endured blood tests, spinal taps, muscle biopsies. After spending $60,000 and turning up nothing, the Marguses took their sons to see Dr. Jean Aicardi, a world-famous French neurologist who happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savior Parents | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...tourists can visit the ghetto hostels set up by the apartheid government to house migrant workers, and Khayelitsha, Cape Town 's largest settlement, now with its own vibrant unofficial economy for everything from clothes to cars. The complete tour costs $45. If you want to stay overnight, Khayelitsha resident Vicki Balman runs a guesthouse from her shanty home. Bed and breakfast costs $25 per person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window on the World | 4/11/2004 | See Source »

...Zhao Wei?Vicki Zhao is her English screen name?doesn't seem to see what she has that's unique. Apparently she never did. As a child, she says, she didn't consider acting as a career because "I thought actresses had to be beautiful, and I thought I was ordinary." She is naggingly self-critical. When one of her movies is mentioned, she asks: "Don't you think I looked like I was trying a little hard?" She is ranked third on Forbes' China Celebrity List (after basketball superstar Yao Ming and actress Zhang Ziyi), yet such accolades have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Cute | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...last we have located a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq hidden in a hole in the ground: Saddam Hussein. VICKI THOMPSON Hollidaysburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 2004 | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

Then it’s the virgins’ turn. Dozens of audience members with red lipstick V’s smeared on their foreheads vie to be pulled on stage in a competition to see who can give the best 20-second lap dance. When audience applause deems Vicki the winning virgin, her row of friends stands and cheers...

Author: By A. SCOTT Holbrook and D. J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Midnight Horrors on Church Street | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

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