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...Quark International, a New York-based manufacturer, has seen its sales of nannycams triple during the past few years. The Counter Spy Shop in Manhattan sells about a dozen a month, including teddy bears at $649 each, as well as those in the form of clock radios, eyeglasses and gym bags. One customer spent $12,000 there to modify his home computer so he could observe the house from his office terminal...
...when she's nine or 10.'" Undaunted, Dimitry enrolled Dominique in a class in the Chicago area, and, as he'd hoped, she took to the sport naturally. Two months after Dominique's 10th birthday, Dimitry drove her to Houston. When Dominique saw the sign on Karolyi's gym, she squealed excitedly, "What are we doing here?" Dimitry answered, "Surprise...
...grand master was more circumspect. "She was nothing to explode in the air about," Karolyi says. Dimitry, undeterred, moved the family close to the gym. During the next 18 months, he commuted weekly to Florida to run a used-car lot. When he finally found a job in Houston, he laid down only one condition: "I have to travel for Dominique's meets...
Three months later, Moceanu placed a respectable, if not dazzling, fifth in the junior national all-around. With most of the attention on Zmeskal, Moceanu relaxed and enjoyed her first taste of celebrity. Approached then by TIME, the 10-year-old offered an uncensored glimpse inside Karolyi's gym: "He gets real mad. On occasion, he kicks kids out of the gym. But the worst is when he says nothing, and you don't know what's the matter." What about those famous Bela bear hugs? "He's much nicer here...
When she feels the need, she turns to Camelia, who definitely deserves gold honors as all-around mom. Camelia prepares Dominique's nutritionally balanced meals, massages her aches, cuts her hair, chauffeurs her to and from the gym twice daily, six days a week--and all the while helps Dominique keep her head on straight. "You have to be prepared for the success and the failure," says Camelia. "That's what defines a great athlete: to be level-headed. You have younger kids following...