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Still, the main impetus for drafting surrender statutes was dealing with brand-new moms who would not hesitate to leave their babies in Dumpsters. "They don't look at the baby as a human being," says Debbe Magnusen, founder of Project Cuddle, a national hotline to rescue unwanted babies, who has helped mothers ranging in age from their teens to their 30s. "It's a tumor or an object or a problem." Spreading the word about the existence of surrender laws has been hard. The details of California's are supposed to be taught in sex-ed classes and publicly...
...Indeed with the company foundering, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin resigned from the Ford's board of directors Friday, citing possibility of a conflict of interest revolving around the Citigroup's ties to the automaker. Rubin's resignation gave new impetus to speculation that the Ford family was thinking of either taking company private or even preparing for a possible merger or alliance with another auto giant or even selling off parts of the company like Jaguar and Volvo."It suggests that some large changes are happening at the Ford Motor Co. that go way beyond the 'Way Forward' plan...
...Japan would find a test particularly provocative. In 1998, North Korea tested a shorter-range Taepodong-1 missile, part of which fell in Japanese waters. That test shocked Japan, and was a powerful impetus for the government to increase its intelligence efforts, missile defenses and military cooperation with the United States. More recently, Japan has been frustrated by North Korea's refusal to provide information about perhaps dozens of Japanese citizens the hermit kingdom abducted throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In Japan, the emotional issue of abducted citizens has become almost as large an issue as North Korea's nuclear...
Though their immediate impetus for action may have disappeared, members of the Council and the Caucus of Chairs say the events of the past year have left them feeling a duty to air their views on issues of FAS governance...
...closed” and comprised of faculty members who will receive space in the new buildings and thus have a stake in the process.But, says Mendelsohn, “I think it’s fair to say that with Summers leaving, some of the major impetus will be diminished. I don’t think you’ll find the faculties nearly as committed as they might have seemed before.”Administrators say that Summers’ departure will do little to change the University’s steady course, however...