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...graduate student in New York City, and Donna, a financial adviser, are just two in a long, flourishing line of kissin' first cousins. Charles Darwin wed his cousin Emma and spawned 10 children, including four brilliant scientists. Albert Einstein's second wife Elsa was his first cousin. Queen Victoria said "I do" to hers. So have millions worldwide. In parts of Saudi Arabia, 39% of all marriages are between first cousins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cousins: A New Theory of Relativity | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...track, freshman Victoria Henderson finished first in the 400-meter hurdles and was followed by junior Amanda Shanklin...

Author: By Nicole J. Meunier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M., W. Track Take Second in Cold Outdoor Meets | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...program rolls up a textbook, exam review book and journal into one,” said Lecturer on Medicine Dr. Victoria Holliday, the director of the initiative...

Author: By Orofisola Fasehun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS Posts Surgery Instructions Online | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...self-satisfied with the common sense she hands out. The current issue of O magazine has an article on coping that suggests that you "make prioritizing a priority." There's also an awful lot of talk about angels. The only angels men want to see are in Victoria's Secret ads. And her solution to everything is telling you to tack a note to your mirror. Tacking a note to your mirror accomplishes nothing but blocking you from seeing your fat self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Oprah | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

Covering Afghanistan, this is not. I check into the elegant Victory Hotel on Shamian Island. The hotel was built by the British in the 1920s as the Victoria; in efficient Guangzhou fashion, the postrevolution name change to the Victory Hotel glorified the communists while requiring a minimum of new letters. After the Second Opium War, Shamian became a foreign concession in 1860, and its pedestrian-friendly streets are lined by former consulates and trading offices that lend an aura of faded grandeur. If most of Guangzhou marches at triple time, gentrified Shamian ambles, stopping at bright, breezy caf? like Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South China's Happening Heart | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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