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Julius Fromm was born in 1883 in Konin, in what was then Russia. When he was 10 years old, his family left the poverty of the shtetl and moved to Berlin in search of a better life. His parents died young, and he and his six siblings were left to fend for themselves.

Along with many other East Europ...

MARRAKESH, MOROCCO - With its snake charmers, storytellers and palm trees against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, Marrakesh was once an offbeat destination for rich or adventurous Europeans.

Now hotels, holiday homes and golf courses are transforming the ancient city into a mass tourism destination, leaving some residents fearing the development may be too much, too fast.

Some have used the development of breasts, others the appearance of pubic hair and still others the start of menstruation. The age at which all of these changes occur has shifted since the Industrial Age, but only changes in breast development have paralleled the obesity epidemic, presenting a challenge for researchers seeking to untangle the connection.

Researchers now largely define bu...

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MIAMI BEACH, Florida: The bodies at this Saturday night gathering are sculpted, the locks of hair full and wavy, the faces made for the covers of magazines.

Such physical per...

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Venues: AMC 1000 Van Ness, the Castro Theatre, the Landmark Opera Plaza and the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco; the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and the ...

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective '94. Jim Carrey. A bungling gumshoe uncovers more than just a simple kidnapping when he searches for the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot. (PG-13) (1:30) TMC: Tue. 8:15 P.M. (CC)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn '60. Tony Randall. Mark Twain's boy hero rafts the Mississippi with slave Jim and meets a bogus king and duke. (NR) (2:00) TCM: Fri. 7 A.M. (CC)

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"The simple fact is that short of catching someone in the act of sex, virginity can be neither proven nor disproven. We cannot prove it today, nor have we ever been able to." And that, in a nutshell, is that. Of course, it's because of the very unlikelihood of catching someone in the act that...

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is a professor of history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. She is author of "Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage"

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Auto shows give carmakers the opportunity to present the public with their finest models, flaunting their sumptuous lines and pretty faces. (Sometimes they also display a few cars, too.) In this regard some shows are better than others, but this year in Geneva &...

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