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Even if you accept that cross-nursing is for the collective good, wet nurses magnify the discomfort that many people already feel about the wealthy employing less advantaged women to do domestic duties. That's why the few women who hire wet nurses--mostly because they have adopted, have had breast implants or reductions or have high-powered careers--keep it a secret, for fear of being judged bad mothers. Still, Robert Feinstock, who owns CertifiedHouseholdStaffing.com a Los Angeles--based agency that supplies wet nurses nationwide, says demand has steadily risen in the past four years, even though the standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcing Breast Milk | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...choice but to snap a quick picture of it, upload it to her computer, and e-mail the JPEG to the Admissions Office in Cambridge, hoping that someone there would be able to translate the recommendation from Arabic. “They’re either going to accept this or throw it out, but I can’t do anything about it,” Gildroy remembered thinking...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Here from Over There | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...Both alternatives have drawbacks. In suggesting the "as applied" challenge, the court was also saying it might no longer accept the more general method of challenging abortion restrictions based on the argument that they are unconstitutional on their face. And while a commerce clause argument might cut down the intact D&E law, it might also spell the end to federal laws like the one barring picketing of abortion clinics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Court's Pro-Choice Silver Lining | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...Department of Transportation is reviewing the application, and will factor in objections from Air Canada, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines, among others, which argue Porter has an unfair "monopoly" on flights from Toronto City Airport. These airlines also want to compete for the urban traveler. Torontonians may accept a downtown airport from its cherished island respite, as long as its only tenant is a struggling, regional airline. But one that services the big North American airlines will be about as welcome in the city as the creature on Porter's logo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a Downtown Airline Isn't Taking Off | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...President should accept the resignation, and set a standard to which the wise and honest might repair in nominating a successor, who will keep the law, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Letter: "An Unsuitable Steward of the Law" | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

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