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...Dingell, the most modest of gun-control measures, which had barely limped wounded into the House from the Senate, was killed. "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence," said Tom Delay of Texas. Compared with his other assertions--that shootings are the product of day care, birth control and the teaching of evolution--that sounded almost persuasive...
That has users tearing out their hair. "This is one of those rare moments, like the birth of the Internet, when something can fundamentally change the way people communicate with each other," says Rob Enderle, an IM watcher at analysts Giga Information Group. "But there must be a standard for this technology to reach its potential. Otherwise, it's like you have to use two telephones...
Rebecca Chittum and Callie Conley will always be known as the switched-at-birth kids. But do they know it themselves? Depends on who's doing the raising. Becca, as her family calls her, has no inkling of the infamous switch. "She doesn't understand. It's too early to tell her," says Tommy Rogers, her "grandfather," that is, the father of Whitney Rogers, the woman who brought Becca home from the University of Virginia Medical Center in July 1995. Meanwhile, the woman who took Callie home from the same hospital prides herself on telling her "daughter" the truth. Calling...
...tells TIME. "No, it doesn't have nothing to do with money, not on my part anyway." Why does she think she is entitled to custody of Rebecca as well as Callie? "Being a mother, maybe my maternal instincts kicked in," Johnson says. "She's my daughter. I gave birth to her. I carried her for nine months. I want her, and that's that...
WHAT'S IN A NAME Two states are making it easier for adults to learn the identity of their biological parents. An Oregon judge just upheld a law that gives adoptees age 21 and older the right to obtain birth certificates listing their birth parents. In Illinois, the Governor is expected to sign a bill stipulating that when a surrogate mother carries another couple's embryo, the birth certificate will not list the surrogate but only the biological parents whose sperm and egg formed the embryo...