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Whatever the motivation, Johnson proceeded to sell the twins a second time. Without telling the Allens, Johnson posted the babies on the Web again and hit pay dirt with a British couple. Alan Kilshaw, a lawyer, and his wife Judith have two sons together, and she has two daughters from a previous marriage. But the Kilshaws wanted another baby, had failed to conceive and feared they would be rejected as adoptive parents in Britain because Judith is 47. They paid Johnson $12,500 to find a baby. When they expressed interest in Kiara and Keyara, Wecker flew to San Bernardino...
...website touts his record and priorities as Governor and Senator and makes no mention whatsoever of abortion. What do you make of a man who is caricatured as Cotton Mather but who is known among his friends for his gospel singing, piano playing, his love of dirt bikes and his ability to spear a carp on a 12-ft. pole? What do you make of a man who has in his barn a 7-ft. statue he crafted of the Statue of Liberty? He made it of barbed wire...
More astonishing still is how South Koreans have embraced the Internet as a tool for living, American-style. In what was a tradition-bound, dirt-poor farming country barely a generation ago, South Koreans are going online to network, day trade, date and prowl for sex. Ambitious start-up companies are churning out content to meet the billowing demand. Computer gaming has become a professional sport, with sponsorships, prize money and battles performed in public. "South Korea is a laboratory," says Daniel O'Neill, executive chairman of QoS Networks, a Dublin Internet company that plans to set up shop...
...graphics. But South Korea's government has been encouraging IT businesses like networking, software development, system integration, content business, B.-to-B. portal operations and database mining. It has slashed red tape for Internet start-ups and deregulated the telecom industry. Result: Internet-access rates in South Korea were dirt cheap just as the Net started to take off. Today more than 3.5 million homes have high-speed Internet access, more than double the number five months ago. The figure in Japan, by contrast, is a puny 640,000 for homes and businesses combined. Internet-ready phone lines are standard...
When Dorm Crew suffered from labor shortages last year, the Adams House bathroom of Kate F. Douglas '02 , became a haven of filth and dirt which accumulated "a layer of black unidentifiable substance," she says...