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Some legislators, however, are acknowledging that there is more to fatherhood than what can be defined solely by the sharing of a few genes. Oklahoma last year joined several states in adopting a law that limits the time frame for contesting paternity to a few years after the child's birth. Paula Roberts, an attorney at the nonprofit Center for Law and Social Policy who helped craft these measures, argues that such time limits protect both the child and the nonbiological father, should Mom ever try to shut him out or the biological dad suddenly show up wanting to horn...
...politicos across the country ride the wave from last year’s midterm elections to the presidential contest in 2008, politics in this country are going to stay as personal as ever for the foreseeable future. For Josh and me, that means a lot more parental spam...
...Presidents have consistently dominated this long-running political contest--conspicuously including F.D.R., who eventually wore down isolationist sentiment and took the country into World War II. And while there have been only five formally declared wars, the U.S. has deployed its armed forces abroad more than 200 times, usually with some kind of congressional assent or at least acquiescence--from Thomas Jefferson's naval expedition against the Barbary pirates of North Africa to numerous interventions in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq...
JAMES YBARRA, contestant in a California radio show's water-drinking contest called "Hold your wee for a Wii"--named for the prize, a new Nintendo game machine--after a fellow contestant, a 28-year-old mother of three, died of water intoxication. The show has been taken off the air, and several of its employees have been fired...
...could call it the World Cup of cooking. Every two years, chefs from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas, all looking to make a name in the culinary world, gather in Lyons, France, to compete in the Bocuse d'Or World Cuisine Contest, an Iron Chef--style cook-off named in honor of the legendary three--star Michelin chef and Lyons resident Paul Bocuse, who started the competition. The winner gets 20,000 euros (or about $26,000), a statuette of an aproned and toqued Bocuse balanced on a globe, and bragging rights to being the best young chef...