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...family support that got Sharon Carter safely though her bout with early puberty. "I am really very excitable," says her mom, "and I had to get all that under control and make her feel that what she was going through was normal." The result, says Sharon: "I don't remember much about all that. I couldn't go swimming when I had my period. And I still can't, and I love to swim. That's the only difference it made with...
...friends again. "I got the sense that she has an interesting and troubled past. It's the only thing that could explain the depth of emotion." He may be referring obliquely to Theron's adolescence, when her father was shot and killed by her mother in self-defense. Though her mother wasn't charged with a crime, Theron previously told reporters that her father died in a car accident. These days Theron, who lives near her mother, who has also immigrated to Los Angeles, prefers not to talk about the tragedy. ("We've moved on," she says.) Asked what lasting...
...Even though the IRS offers these provisions, some financial institutions won't let you stretch out your IRA. So before you open an account or decide to keep the IRA where it is, make sure your firm will allow it. If so, designate the beneficiary before you are required to start taking distributions. And keep the paperwork in a safe place. "People lose their IRA assets after death because they can't find the documents. If you can't find your beneficiary forms, the firm may treat it as if you don't have a beneficiary," says Ed Slott...
...underwhelmed. Here we go again, I thought: yet another overpriced, underperforming PC wannabe. Like many of the so-called Net appliances that preceded it (see below), Audrey promises the joys of the Net without the cost or unwieldiness of a full-featured computer. Given the lackluster company it keeps, though, that's not saying much...
...started rebooting, distorting the critical information the radars displayed. When no quick fix could be found, the controllers who direct the almost 7,000 flights a day that flow through the airspace were switched to the emergency system. Some of them were not up to speed on that version, though, and they became confused and started yelling, "The backup system isn't working!" The problem was caused by what an agency spokesman called a glitch in the software--installed just that morning--although, he added, safety was never compromised...