Mary Lou Friedman, a spunky 86-year-old with an ailing husband, is being threatened by hoodlums in her Cincinnati neighborhood, forcing her to fight for her family and home in Dorothy Weil’s latest novel, “A Good Woman” (ISBN 9781891386855, Plainview Press, 2008). Two thugs break into her home to steal her television and continually threaten her, [...]

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HONG KONG — Hong Kong Disneyland hopes to reverse the fortunes of Disney’s first theme park in China with a marketing campaign geared toward young, well-to-do Chinese adults.
Mainland professionals in their 20s and 30s may have an affinity for Disney not seen in the larger population, and park officials say the solution to its poor [...]

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Here’s good news for all of us who are still collecting birthdays.
You can be 36 years old and as cool as you were at 18 or 20.
Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort proves it.
One of the two Disney hotels that opened with the park in 1971 (the Polynesian Resort was the [...]

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