| On May 1, an ordinary resident of Samara, Alexandra Rashchupkina, a fragile and smiley woman marked her 92nd birthday. Her heart pounds every time when she recalls the war years, she says. “I just cannot help crying when I see war films and newsreels on TV sometimes.”She is a remarkable woman. Born in Uzbekistan nearly a century ago, she was one of the first female tractor drivers in her village. By the time the war broke out she and her husband had been married for several years, had two childr... | The number of cases in which one parent takes his/her child abroad without the other parent´s knowledge has been rising in the Czech Republic, Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.
Last year alone, Czech authorities applied for the return of three children from abroad, and on the other hand, the Czech Republic extradited 16 children to foreigners, compared with "only" nine children in 2002, the paper writes.
It says that the post-divorce tug of war for children need not involve foreig... | It wasn't exactly "When Harry Met Sally," but the story line of "When Harold Met Sandra" comes close.
Harold Gruber and Sandra Hudak, a Wilmington surgical team who recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary, almost didn't make it to the altar. In fact, they almost didn't make it to a first date.
The couple met as young doctors in a rural Virginia podiatric practice. Harold, an ambitious senior associate, was taken aback when the founder of the practice decided to bring in a third... |
