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...chief concern. In 1985, Patti Frustaci of Orange, Calif., gave birth to septuplets; one was stillborn, and three died within 19 days. Cerebral palsy and retardation had been diagnosed by the time the three survivors reached age 3. Ultimately, the family won a $2.7 million settlement against the clinic and the doctor who prescribed fertility drugs for Frustaci. She came back for further treatments, however, and this time gave birth to robust twins. She has since left her family; the children are being raised by their father...
...clasped tightly together, in the urgent, hushed murmurs of their voices. And the evidence that their hope may be realized is displayed prominently all around them: the hallway is lined with bulletin boards covered with the photographs of babies born to men and women who have sat in the clinic over the years...
...their lunches, a girl who wanted to read her Bible on the school bus and a Hindu who refused jury duty on religious grounds. The group also briefly considered defending Paul Hill, who was convicted of the 1994 murder of a doctor and another man at a Florida abortion clinic, but refused to argue, as Hill wanted, that the killing was justifiable homicide. "Violence never justifies violence...
...students beat such a hasty retreat? The Cult Hotline and Clinic in New York City has received a dozen complaints from family members concerned about their relatives' overzealous commitment to the center. Students often spend Jewish holidays with Berg; a few become hevra, volunteers who live and work at center facilities. "My husband took our daughters there," says a Long Island, N.Y., homemaker. "My eight-year-old said, 'When you look into Rabbi Berg's eyes, you see his soul, and he's beautiful.' I ask you, is that normal?" Their marriage fell apart after her husband insisted on spending...
...launching pad, LL is attempting to become a crossover phenomenon. Right now all his stars are lining up auspiciously. In January he performed at the presidential Inaugural. He already has a TV sitcom, UPN's In the House, in which he stars as a father figure and sports-clinic owner, and this fall he debuts in a national ad campaign for Coca-Cola. In September he published his autobiography, I Make My Own Rules, in which he urges his fans to "get beyond materialism." Of his music, he writes, "I know I need to be careful when it comes...