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...Florida judge ruled that Kimberly Mays could end all contact with her biological parents, Regina and Ernest Twigg. Kimberly was accidentally switched at birth with another girl whom the Twiggs discovered was not their daughter after she died of a congenital heart defect five years ago. The judge ruled that the Twiggs have "no legal interest in or rights to Kimberly Mays," while deeming Robert Mays, who has raised the girl, to be her "psychological parent...
...salesman, sat her down and told her that he was not her biological father. Nor was his late wife, Barbara Mays, her mother. Instead, she was the blood daughter of a Langhorne, Pennsylvania, couple, Ernest and Regina Twigg. In 1988 the Twiggs' daughter Arlena had died of a heart defect. Blood tests led to the discovery that the two girls had been switched at birth in a small rural Florida hospital. The Twiggs were now determined to make their biological daughter part of their life...
Hata's new party, roughly translated as Japan Renewal, the second group in three days to defect from the Liberal Democrats, is considered the most likely to pull together a coalition able to oust what is left of Japan's unruly and unroyal dynasty. Once the managers of Japan's rise to economic-superpower status under the warm glow of its alliance with the U.S., the Liberal Democrats today are noted for a single, sordid attribute: corruption. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sank to a lowly 9% approval rating two weeks ago after he buckled under party pressure and failed...
...more supporters from the L.D.P., where there is still considerable unhappiness with Miyazawa, 73, and worry about the voters' wrath on the reform issue. Former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu announced a 105-member group of L.D.P. legislators who favor reforms. If the Hata group does well, they may just defect...
24After a frantic search lasting more than a decade, harvard Medical School researchers report that they have located the elushe genetic defect responsible for Huntington's disease." The Key to the defect is a short repeated sequence of DNA, Just three base pairs of the millions which make up each Human chromosome. With the finding, a quicker and more inexpensive test for the degenerative disease of the central network system, and eventually a better understanding of the disease mechanism, may feed to a cure...