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...ruling meant that biological parents Crispina and Mark Calvert of Orange County, Calif., could finally fill out the birth certificate for their son Christopher Michael, which has remained blank since the boy's birth on Sept. 19. The surrogate mother, nurse Anna Johnson of Garden Grove, Calif., vowed to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary, to gain custody. "I'm in a state of deep mourning for my son," she said...
...will stumble across them. When tapes become public, the humiliation can be intense. The sheriff of Morris County, Kans., filmed his wife and himself with a rented video camera and mistakenly returned the camera to the store -- with the tape inside. Copies quickly circulated around the town of Council Grove. Eventually, the sheriff had to resign, and the couple left town...
...dozen telephone lines at the cramped office of Talkline/Kids Line in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ring softly every few minutes. Some of the youthful callers seem at first to be vulgar pranksters, out to make mischief with inane jokes and naughty language. But soon the voices on the line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director...
Jennifer W. GRove...
...woman. According to Bloom, the God of these passages is "the West's major literary character," and the author's achievement is "comparable in imagination and rhetoric" only to that of Shakespeare and a few other writers. Bloom's case is laid out in The Book of J (Grove Weidenfeld; $21.95), on sale this week. "J" (for Jahwist or Yahwist) is the label scholars give to one of the hypothetical documents from which the Pentateuch was compiled and to its author or authors. Bloom's commentary appears with a new translation of J passages by David Rosenberg, former chief editor...