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While Governor Dave Heineman is pushing to limit the rewritten law to newborns of 72 hours, some lawmakers are saying that the abandonments have exposed an urgent need to fix gaping holes in the state's mental-health services, which they claim fail to assist families with little resources to help problem children. Senator Annette Dubas introduced an alternate bill that would retain a safe haven for parents with kids ages 1 to 15 through June 2009 so that the legislature could address the broader issues come January. "Do not forget those struggling families," she urged her colleagues...
...Taylor may have brushed the affair aside had it not been the second time Pollard strayed. Shortly after her marriage, Taylor woke from an afternoon nap to find Pollard watching his Dave Barmy avatar having sex with a computer-generated prostitute...
...Taylor met her 40-year-old husband, David Pollard, in an online chat room in 2003. Their mutual interest in Second Life helped their relationship flourish, and the couple married two years later. To mark the occasion, Laura Skye married Dave Barmy, Pollard's avatar (who clearly opted for the modest lifestyle on the game, living in a chalet with a Cobra helicopter gunship parked next to it), in a lavish ceremony on Second Life. "People find love in lots of different ways," Taylor said...
...would say I'm in love with Dave," she said. "I've been married in real life before, but they weren't really good relationships, and I haven't had much luck with men until now." Given her future husband's wandering avatar, it's probably too soon to know if that luck will last...
...expensive fossil-fuel-based power and is, as millions in the Northeast learned during the 2003 blackout, anything but infallible. In 2006, Home Power magazine estimated that more than 180,000 U.S. homes were supplying their own power. "Some people want to minimize their impact on the environment," says Dave Black, a disaster-response consultant and expert in off-the-grid living. "Some people want to ensure they have service if there's an outage. And some people just want to look green." (See TIME's special report on the environment...