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Departing Anglican Bishop of the Goldfields Gerald Beaumont had two pieces of advice before handing over his 330,000-sq.-km diocese to Tom Wilmot in February this year: "cruise control and reading books." To these, Wilmot, 53, might add Shoo Roo, the device fitted to bush vehicles to scare away kangaroos with ultrasonic sounds. For an area stretching from Esperance on the Southern Ocean to Eneabba northwest of Perth and across to the South Australian border, he'll be needing Shoo Roo. As Wilmot puts it, such distances are "unimaginable, with apparently nothing in between." But six months into...
...Texas, a lower-court judge in Beaumont allowed two men who had been wed in Vermont to dissolve their union, but he reversed himself after state attorney general Greg Abbott argued that because Texas law prohibits gay marriage, the state cannot grant a gay divorce. If mediation fails, the only other alternative, says Houston attorney Jerry Simoneaux, is district court, where a judge might, for example, divide assets according to how much each partner contributes. Family court judges can weigh what is fair. "The person who stayed at home would lose a lot," Simoneaux says...
...asbestos claims, an Austrian company paid nearly $600 million for Harbison-Walker in 1999. Says Burgher: "Nobody foresaw this." Lawyers for asbestos victims say Cheney and Halliburton should have known better. "Everyone knew these were multimillion-dollar cases," said Glen Morgan, a leading asbestos-claims lawyer based in Beaumont, Texas. Whatever Cheney knew, he's not saying. His office refers all questions back to Halliburton. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas and James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
With no job, Duncan is spending more time with his wife Peggy, a former accountant, and their three young daughters. They live in a $753,000 ranch-style home in a shady Houston enclave quite unlike the middle-class neighborhood where Duncan grew up in Beaumont, Texas. Duncan belongs to the pricey Houston Racquet Club and is an avid golfer and tennis player. These days, though, he's often found working out in the club gym--a solitary figure trying to get through what friends say is the worst period of his life...
...those are the guidelines to stick with, says Dr. David Decker, an oncologist specializing in breast cancer at the William Beaumont Hospital in metro Detroit. "I tell patients to continue following the recommendations from the American Cancer Society and the NCI," he says...