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...situated in a jungle ravine amid terraced paddy fields, showcased Wilson's stage legerdemain at work. Flimsy sets produced majestic effects: a great seagoing ship was created with a few artfully twisted bamboo culms; a parade of animals sprang to life from bits of cloth, paper and string. The birth of the title character was represented by winding and unwinding the mother from a series of gorgeous sarongs?a simple, graceful illusion that matched the solemnity of the event...
...APPROVED. FERNANDO POE JR., 64, Philippine film star, to run for President, by the Philippine Supreme Court; in Manila. The popular actor faced disqualification from the race, because his mother was American and not married to his father at the time of his birth in the Philippines. The latest survey by pollster Social Weather Stations shows Poe neck and neck with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ahead of the May 10 election...
...Toxoplasmosis A big problem for pregnant women (it can produce miscarriages and birth defects), toxoplasmosis is caused by a protozoan that can be picked up by eating undercooked meat or by contact with infected cat feces more than...
...other, less visible ways: supporting legislation that establishes harm to a fetus as a crime and, as ABC News first reported, having the Justice Department demand that six Planned Parenthood clinics produce records of abortions they had performed to see if last year's ban on so-called partial-birth abortions was being violated. And it appears the White House would have no problem with letting the 10-year ban on assault weapons expire this September...
...parents can find themselves with no legal right to see the children they helped raise--only biological and adoptive parents have legal standing. On that basis, in 1999 an appeals court in Illinois denied visitation rights to a woman who had raised a daughter with her partner from birth and continued to support the child after their split. "It's sometimes as though the other parent never existed, which is a horrible thing for a child," says Suzanne Goldberg, a professor of law at Rutgers University. Some gay lawyers have complained that clients have wanted to employ anti-gay arguments...