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...visiting children. After three years of arm twisting, the Fleury-Merogis prison outside Paris last month let her stage the first Father's Day party for kids and their jailed dads. Blanco still has to struggle to raise money. She recently wrote to all 63 companies in her local chamber of commerce. Not one gave a euro...
...possible 308 seats and forced to form the country's first minority government in 25 years, it was partly at the hands of people like Gurmant and Nina Grewal. Newly elected M.P.s from the Conservative Party and the first husband-and-wife team in the chamber, the Grewals' success is a sign of the growing political influence of Canada's Asian population...
Cosby was ahead of his time. There's a bit of a boom in biblical fiction these days: Jacob's four wives got the novelistic treatment in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and this spring brought us Rebecca Kohn's The Gilded Chamber, starring Esther, and Marek Halter's Sarah, which gamely fills in that figure's early life and makes a passionate love story of her marriage to Abraham. Like Cosby's routine, these books all come with a pleasantly blasphemous tingle. Do they dare improve on the Bible? What do they give us that the Good Book...
...study reviewed in the Harvard Men's Health Watch in May, 72 married couples were ranked on a scale of marital stress and tracked for three years. Those with high levels of stress were more likely to have an unhealthy thickening of the heart's main pumping chamber. (Couples in unhappy marriages, however, were at least able to lower their blood pressure by spending less time with their spouses.) Other studies have shown that happily married women have less blockage in their aortas, and that happily married couples are less likely than unhappy couples to suffer from heart disease...
...abduction, rape and murder, after an eight-year investigation that sparked public outrage and prompted sweeping law-enforcement reforms, by a 12-member jury; in Arlon, Belgium. Paroled after serving time for rape in the '80s, Dutroux was found guilty of imprisoning six young girls in an underground chamber, murdering two of them and killing an accomplice. Dutroux, who faces life in prison, claimed to be the scapegoat for a pedophile ring with ties to the rich and powerful but failed to convince the jury...