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...emotional demands of family life. His wife Laura feels differently about his being home. "It takes the edge off being a pilot's wife," she says, "that at least I know I won't be getting that phone call in the middle of the night telling me my husband has been shot down...
DIED. FANNY MCCONNELL ELLISON, 93, writer and founding director in 1938 of Chicago's Negro People's Theater, who was acknowledged by many--including her husband Ralph Ellison--to be a key editor and adviser on his 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man; in New York City. The couple, who were married from 1946 until his death in 1994, met after Fanny told a mutual friend, poet Langston Hughes, that she wanted to meet a man with an interest in books...
...experiment. The CBS drama Numb3rs, which stars Rob Morrow as an FBI agent and David Krumholtz as his crime-fighting mathematician brother, was sparked by a lecture Nye gave 10 years ago on the subject of turning kids on to math and science. Now the show's creators, husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star Dec. 16 as an engineering professor from the fictional Cal Sci University. As the closest thing scientists have to a pop-culture ambassador, Nye has one script note to suggest: "More romance," he says. "Smart...
...heating up. To avoid that, the Federal Reserve has been boosting rates for two years, making all borrowed money more expensive. That troubles Jodi Legge, 41, of Hudson, Wis., who expects that her home-equity debt is going to cost more every month. So she and her husband Ed are sticking to the holiday budget they agreed on. Still, "we haven't cut back," Jodi says, although she's redirecting money to more practical places...
Moore-Bosko's murder resonated in Norfolk, a Navy town, because sailors' wives are often left at home alone while their husbands are at sea. The 18-year-old newlywed was slain in the early-morning hours of July 8, 1997, in her apartment in a low-rent brick building. She had been expecting her husband Billy, a Navy signalman, home that day from his weeklong tour of duty. After Billy discovered her body, stabbed in the chest, on the bedroom floor, the local police were under enormous pressure to solve the crime quickly. By the second...