Switching Roles

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Chavez enjoys presiding over her 10,000-sq.-ft. store and 35,000 sq. ft. of storage buildings, providing her customers with everything from hay to plumbing supplies to power tools. But in addition, like all baby boomers who have plunged into unconventional fields, she relishes the novelty of her position. "It's kind of a kick," she says, "that I stand out from the pack as a woman in a man's world at this point in my life."

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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