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...Marion Crossman doesn't like it when her ex-husband wanders through her house on changeover days looking for one of his children - and her new husband likes it even less. But for the greater good she bites her tongue. "They are his daughters and I have to be loyal to him in front of them," says Crossman, 45, a high-school teacher in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney...
...Crossman and her ex- husband have pulled off something the Australian Government hopes will become more common. After their marriage ended in 1994, they devised - without the involvement of lawyers, let alone a judge - their own care arrangements, which are close to 50/50...
...feeling is that people go to court when they've done something wrong," says Crossman, adding she never considered trying to restrict her ex-husband to weekends-and-holidays-only access. "Particularly as I left him, I couldn't see why he should miss out on seeing his kids. And it wouldn't have been fair on our daughters (now 17 and 14) to deprive them of him just because their parents' relationship broke down...
...from Crossman, Greg Cairns, 51, is making a week on-week off arrangement work with his ex-wife and their three daughters - 13, nine and seven. Because he was an involved father while the marriage was intact, the prospect of not seeing his girls for a fortnight at a time was unbearable, Cairns says. It wasn't as difficult as many men might imagine, he adds, to negotiate with his employer working hours that allowed shared care...
...Researchers around the world, including Crossman and Brotchie, have suspected that serotonin may have some connection with Parkinson's and have been searching for a serotonin-stimulating drug to combine with L-dopa. They have had little success, though, and the news that the missing link may be ecstasy, or at least something in it, has cheered the Manchester duo. "The reason we're excited by Tim's case is that we've spent between us the best part of 50 years trying to understand movement disorders, and the effect we see in him with mdma [ecstasy's scientific name...