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...government years to achieve. More than 10,000 of the 17,000 bills submitted by child-care providers were over 30 days late in being paid. Day-care centers whose bills were past due worried about having to turn away children or let staff go. Parents who tried to contact Maximus encountered what a state administrator called "telephone-system collapse." With its contract in jeopardy, Maximus CEO David Mastran went into crisis mode, nearly tripling the project's staff and showing up in Connecticut himself. The blame lies partly with the state for not anticipating how quickly welfare recipients would...
...television, and that he said at the time to Lindsey, "Bruce, do we know this lady? Who is this person?" But it is the female witnesses who contend that the Enforcer worked overtime trying to compel a silence about Clinton's past sexual relationships. Lindsey was allegedly in contact with Linda Tripp, his former subordinate, after she saw Kathleen Willey emerge disheveled from an alleged Oval Office sexual encounter. Browning, meanwhile, says that in addition to working out their deal, Lindsey was her White House contact about her relationship with the President, and he was the person she called when...
...less than forthcoming to parents about the fate of unused embryos. In IVF clinics, all of a patient's embryos are accounted for. The truly pressing issue surrounding frozen embryos is abandonment. IVF clinics throughout the world often become the guardians of unclaimed frozen embryos because couples lose contact with the lab either by choice or by not supplying forwarding addresses. Clinics must then decide whether to destroy the embryos after a certain period of time or keep them frozen indefinitely. Without a specific, notarized directive, IVF clinics are loath to destroy these "orphan" embryos. And although they...
Around campus my suspicions were confirmed: suddenly I noticed more and more people were showing up to section with glasses. In late-night jaunts to the laundry room, countless more wore spectacles, admitting that they are closet contact-lens wearers. Friends began to complain how their vacation time would be dominated by trips to the optometrist and to pick out frames. My poor vision, for once, was not at fault; that number of eyes cannot be wrong. Harvard dorms are dangerously dim and campus vision is at stake...
...other side of London, Sarah has taken a teaching position, after having kept in touch with Terry for a fair amount of time. However, she can't keep from wondering what has happened to Veronica and Robert in the interim, particularly why the latter's isolated attempts to contact her had been so cryptic...