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...deep discount to its face value. The interest payments are built into the price at which the holder redeems the bond when it matures in five to 30 years. Zeros are easily obtained through a broker, and there's a series of mutual funds called American Century Benham Group Target Maturities (800-345-2021) that invests in nothing but zeros. Those funds have been top performers this year...
...hospital would tilt toward a group practice of salaried doctors or the classic system of independent ones. At Dunn, doctors are all self-employed and work for patients on a fee-for-service basis. "The worst thing that has happened in medicine is the HMO," says Dr. Lawrence Benham, a grandfatherly 84-year-old in his 47th year of practice at Dunn. "There are 30 people standing around a pile of money, and what they don't spend at the end of the year they get to split with the CEO." Dunn makes a point of not rushing patients...
Last March Benham moved Operation Rescue's national headquarters into the same small building that houses McCorvey's clinic. After some recrimination, the two bonded, and she told him of her doubts. By May she was doing odd jobs around Operation Rescue's offices. Then last month seven-year-old Emily Mackey, the daughter of the office manager, invited the woman she now calls "Auntie" to church, and McCorvey accepted Jesus Christ...
...battle against abortion." But as Weddington (who, tellingly, still refers to McCorvey as "Jane Roe") points out, Roe was a class action, and presumably not all of the people McCorvey represented have made the same journey as she. Moreover, if she does go on to work for Benham, McCorvey will undoubtedly be the first volunteer in Operation Rescue history to support a woman's right to a first-trimester abortion...
...always possible that under Benham's influence, McCorvey will move to a sharper antiabortion stance. She says her new friends are praying for that. They will also have to come to terms with her 26-year live-in relationship with a woman. "Norma will be set free from it," Benham has said, possibly indicating that McCorvey's new mentors, like her old ones, have their own agenda...