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Still, parental concerns are understandable. After her 2 1/2-year-old son had a convulsion following a DTP shot and developed learning disabilities, Barbara Fisher, of Vienna, Va., entered the vaccine debate by co-founding the National Vaccine Information Center, a clearinghouse of vaccine data. Says Fisher: "If you question the vaccines, you are somehow [regarded as] bringing death and disease to this country...
...movies had learned to talk and, with the help of Broadway-bred writers, did so in a sassy vernacular that singed sensitive ears. And the films were acted with a feral intelligence. James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck were street-level stars with insolent accents and attitudes. "There we were, like an uncensored movie," says Harlow of one tryst in Red-Headed Woman (she fornicates her way up the social ladder, gets found out and lands in Paris with a new sugar daddy and a stud chauffeur). These guys and dolls could dish it out and just...
...dining-room table, Isiah, an eight-year-old with a toothy grin, carefully creases paper airplanes, enlisting his mother to staple them together. "Nobody makes them as well as you," she says. Can this be the same foster baby that Barbara Harris carried home from the hospital--a stiff-limbed infant who couldn't sleep more than 15 minutes at a stretch, who would wake screaming and vomiting? "He was a bundle of nerves," recalls Harris, who adopted Isiah and three of his siblings, all born with crack cocaine in their systems. "He had the shakes. All you could...
...social workers and a foster mother who has taken in seven drug-addicted babies. CRACK has mounted a toll-free hot line, a website cracksterilization.com and billboards in four states. It opened a chapter in Chicago last month and has garnered attention from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. Radio shrink Dr. Laura Schlessinger contributed...
...joke that when one of his daughters saw how well he was doing in the polls, she told him, "Dad, you're not as cool as they think you are." That's about all we're likely to hear this campaign from either of his 17-year-old twins BARBARA and JENNA. As granddaughters of a President, they are already monitored by the Secret Service, which has asked the campaign to skimp on the details of how the pair spent the summer. That's fine with the potential First Twins. "They're not big into campaigning," says spokeswoman MINDI TUCKER...