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...debate among husbands and wives: how many children to have. But Steven and Maureen Kass of Amityville, N.Y., bring something new to the issue: they're wrestling with the question five years after their divorce. The Kasses have five frozen embryos, made from his sperm and her eggs, left over from their married days of trying to conceive by in-vitro fertilization. Maureen, who is 40 and childless, wants to use them to have children. Steven, 38, is adamant that he doesn't want kids with his ex-wife. He is seeking to donate the embryos to research. Their fight...
...risks of the missions. That's not surprising, since scientific information is so hard to convey in a drama. The result, though, is that we don't appreciate the challenges NASA faced or the ingenious ways it met them. In view of this flaw and the failure to bring individuals really alive, one wonders if a documentary approach would have been preferable to a dramatization. It would have provided more clarity and very possibly more emotion. As Ken Burns has demonstrated, a documentary need...
America has a rare and precious asset in Gates. He is a man whose work improves people's lives, making our working hours more productive and more fun. Gates must bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign exchange to America each year. If he makes billions as a result, good luck to him. Will bringing down Microsoft and Gates benefit America? It may soothe the envy of his competitors, but it won't be of long-term benefit to the world. America should celebrate him, not persecute him. BARBARA BANNISTER KwaZulu, South Africa...
...jail and $2,500 fines. Arkansas adopted a parental-responsibility law in 1995, under which courts can order parents or guardians to attend a "parent responsibility training program." Parents must complete the program and pay for its cost or be sanctioned for contempt. According to Glynn, Arkansas can also bring a criminal prosecution against a parent "whose gross neglect of parental duty" leads to the criminal acts of a child. Under that statute, however, parents face only a maximum $250 fine with no jail time...
...former star football player, sports commentator and actor added that he has never wanted to talk to his daughter, Sydney, 12, and son, Justin, 9, about their mother's murder. Regarding his children's silence, Simpson said the "best shrinks and child psychologists" had advised him, "Let them bring it up, let them talk about it when they want...