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...country has been less certain that they should be allowed to marry and adopt. Last year Congress passed a bill dubbed the Defense of Marriage Act, which said each state could choose whether to recognize gay marriages; 25 states have banned them outright. In this context, says Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay lobbying group, "this [New Jersey policy] is a vitally important agreement. The next stage of the gay-rights movement will focus on all of these issues dealing with our families...
...town of Roby is a strangely idyllic place for a siege. Nevertheless, as acres of corn and soybean have been undulating in the fall breeze, and as birch, maple and oak have been turning their autumnal colors, Shirley Allen, 51, has been facing down the law for the past month. On Sept. 22, Christian County sheriff's deputies knocked on the door of her two-bedroom farmhouse to serve her with a court order for psychiatric evaluation. She met them with a 12-gauge bolt-action shotgun. They backed off and set up the siege...
Things didn't click until the new players got used to each other and fit into their roles. Freshman Ashley Birch became a scorer and classmate Jeanne Ficociello proved to be good all-around. Their fellow first-year players also found their place; only one (Kim Weeks) did not see significant time...
...director of the Hemapheresis Center of the bone-marrow-transplant program at Emory University School of Medicine, is already using the CellPro procedure on young leukemia patients. "I don't have any other device that works as well to offer these people," he says. Another supporter is former Senator Birch Baye, who co-authored the 1980 Baye-Dole Act, which gives the government the power to seize a patent in the name of public health or safety and issue a license. Baye says the CellPro case perfectly illustrates the law's intent: to get new treatments to the people...
...made this contest close throughout. Bentley scored the first of her four goals less than a minute after the game started, but junior Honor MacNaughton tied it on a free position four minutes later. Harvard and Yale then traded goals for the next 10 minutes, with Dahmen, freshman Ashley Birch and Yale's Amy Terry and Alyssa Chen scoring...