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...destination doesn't have to be extreme to be meaningful - sometimes the company is the main attraction. On Jill Valeri's 40th birthday, her husband told her to pack three days worth of clothes and be ready to go at 3 p.m. Then he whisked her away from their suburban Maryland home to New York City, where they lived when they first met. He had already arranged childcare, asked his wife's boss to give her a couple days off and hatched a plan with her sister, whom his wife hadn't seen in over a year...
...were having dinner the first night at our favorite Chinese restaurant in our old neighborhood," Valeri says. "We were standing outside and someone bumped me. I turned to apologize, and realized it was my sister and her fiancé who live in Florida!" The foursome spent a memorable weekend catching up, going to the theater and revisiting favorite restaurants and places from years...
...Valeri Liukin responded...
...Liukin can rest assured that her gold medal was fully deserved, after a flawless competition and against an equally aggressive rival. But as meaningful as the medal is for Liukin, it might be an even sweeter victory for her father. Twenty years ago, in another heated battle between teammates, Valeri Liukin, competing for Russia, lost the 1988 men's all-around Olympic title in Seoul to Vladimir Artyomov. "She fixed my mistake," said her father. "I was second, half a tenth behind Vladimir, and she fixed that. I am very proud," he said, too emotional to continue. Liukin senior might...
...than it was 20 years ago," he says. And gay activists in Italy say GAY-TV is already having a positive impact. "Only through television can you reach certain 18- or 25-year-olds who live in the small towns and feel isolated from other gay people," says Luigi Valeri, spokesman for national gay-rights association Arcigay. "The image of gays on television is moving closer to the reality." And on the way, it has just about everyone seeing pink...