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In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.
By Lisa Michaels
July 15, 1998
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In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.
By Lisa Michaels
July 15, 1998
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Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim.
By Lesley Gold
July 13, 1998
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Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim.
By Lesley Gold
July 13, 1998
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Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
By Jeff Stryker
July 10, 1998
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Our Babies, Ourselves, by anthropologist Meredith F. Small, urges us to question some of the fundamental ways Americans raise their children.
By Constance Matthiessen
July 8, 1998
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For young Asian-American women, Disney's new heroine Mulan is no mirror image, but at least she casts back a reflection.
By Katherine Kim and Andrea Quong
July 7, 1998
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After not dating for more than a decade, a 30-something mother places a personals ad -- and faces date 17.
By Nicki Blake
July 3, 1998
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Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks her child abuse, detailed in her memoir 'Mommie Dearest,' is one big campy joke?
By Paul Festa
July 1, 1998
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Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
By Jeff Stryker
June 30, 1998
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How the masked avenger taught a white kid from the suburbs that California's past -- and its present -- was older, darker and more soulful than he had ever dreamed.
By Stephen Talbot
June 30, 1998
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My mother isn't the only one bound to her addiction: Smoking is what makes her truly my mother.
By Peter Bebergal
June 29, 1998
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A bride-from-hell's orders on what to wear, how to act and what to think.
By Virginia Hartman and Barbara Esstman
June 26, 1998
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Still convinced that the time you forgot to hold your breath while pumping gas will cause irreparable damage to your unborn child?
By Anne S. Lewis
June 24, 1998
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Salon gets personal with NPR's Maestro of conversation.
By Lori Leibovich
June 22, 1998
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Charming and vicious, brilliant and stupid, my father was not an easy person to be around -- even during our final visit.
By Gina Hyams
June 19, 1998
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Why do people get all creeped out that my children call me by my first name?
By Susan McCarthy
June 18, 1998
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What had I left in the Florida of my childhood vacations that I wanted my children to find?
By Ann Hood
June 17, 1998
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How a child who was almost named Windowsill, and was forbidden the pleasures of Oreos has come to appreciate his unconventional parents.
By Maccabee Montandon
June 15, 1998
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If your children could tell you what they really want to do for vacation, you might find out that your meticulous plans to keep them occupied this summer is all for naught.
By Kate Moses
June 10, 1998
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For one little boy whose babyhood was almost lost in a crowded Russian orphanage, it's not the educational toys and developmental stimuli that matter most.
By Janis Cooke Newman
June 9, 1998
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Steven Levenkron's book "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation" casts an eye on the emotional pains behind a dark adolescent practice.
By Fiona Morgan
June 6, 1998
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Senegal turns against the tyranny of female genital mutilation.
By Vivienne Walt
June 3, 1998
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In the second of two articles, a teacher who was on the front lines describes how a California high school became a battleground in the struggle over what America's students should be taught about homosexuality.
By Ira Eisenberg
June 2, 1998
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A battle between parents and gay-rights advocates may be a preview of the country's next great culture war.
By Ira Eisenberg
June 1, 1998