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...moment the strutting hypocrisy revealed by Jesse Jackson's confession last week that in 1998, at the very moment he was providing pastoral counseling to the White House's resident adulterer, he was carrying on an extramarital affair of his own, with a subordinate who later gave birth to his child. Focus instead on his stupidity: How could the nation's premier civil rights leader have been so reckless? Of course, that's the same question everybody was asking about Bill Clinton in 1998. But at least Clinton isn't a minister...
...would take the law firm of Solomon, Solomon & Solomon to sort out this tug of war. Courtesy of a fly-by-night baby-brokerage service on the Internet, two sets of would-be adoptive parents, plus the birth mother and a variety of government officials, are fighting over two tiny twins whose fate is now subject to the conflicting laws of Britain, California and Arkansas. To whom do they legally belong? Who would be the best parents? Who knows...
Ashcroft fought Surgeon General David Satcher's nomination because Satcher did not support a partial-birth-abortion...
Discovered in northwestern Australia, the prize specimen was dated by two separate scientific teams as either 4.3 billion or 4.4 billion years old. That puts it within a geological blink of Earth's fiery birth out of a swirling cloud of solar dust and gases 4.56 billion years ago. But how could any crystalline object solidify under such torrid conditions? The answer, the scientists reported in Nature, is that the planet was already bathed in cooling water...
...drops I plan the new year's shopping calendar. Especially in a quasi-economic slowdown, shoppers target seasonal and end-of-season sales. Buying gifts and replacing household and personal items throughout the year can save a lot of money and spare you the holiday crush. And by matching birth dates, anniversaries and vacations to clearance sales, markdowns and promotional sales, you map a path around financial landmines. Here is a month-by-month guide...