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...erupts. Denver juvenile court judge Dana Wakefield says he invariably considers the child's needs over the parents' demands. "In my courtroom, they stay where they've been nurtured," he says flatly. "You have to consider who the child feels is the psychological parent. If they have a good bond in that home, I'm not about to break it." In the DeBoers' case, he adds, the alternatives were not necessarily better for Jessica. "The other parents didn't have a good track record to simply hand the baby over to them. And to put her in another foster home...
...ABORTION DRUG HAS BEEN A source of controversy ever since its invention was announced in 1982 by Baulieu, a French physician who worked as a researcher at Roussel Uclaf. The concept was rather simple: RU 486, an antiprogestin, could break a fertilized egg's bond to the uterine wall and thus induce a miscarriage. An injection two days later of prostaglandin, a hormone-like substance, would force uterine contractions and speed the ejection of the embryo. It took six more years and tests on more than 17,000 women before the French government announced that RU 486 would be made...
...Bonding sounds ominous, if it means posting big bucks to be forfeited (as with a bail bond) in case of calamity. But it would be hard to argue against voluntary hiking-and-climbing insurance, perhaps offered at modest extra cost along with park entrance fees. In Austria insurance comes with membership in the Alpine Club, which costs little and also gives unlimited opportunity to climb with experts...
Fears of inflation spooked the U.S. bond market and helped gold reach a 17- month high after a report that the Consumer Price Index rose an unexpected 0.4% in April. Prices have increased at a 4.3% annual rate so far this year, up from 2.9% in the first four months...
...jump in interest rates would also clobber the bond market, to which mutual-fund buyers have flocked as well. Bonds took off on a powerful rally last November that has pushed long-term yields to their lowest level in 20 years (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). A spurt in interest rates would have the opposite effect, halting the boom and sending bond prices spiraling down...