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...though, the practice bears a stigma of inbreeding just this side of incest. The taboo is not only social (the Jerry Lee Lewis syndrome) but legislative: 24 states ban the marriage of first cousins; five others allow it only if the couple is unable to bear children. A major reason for this ban is the belief that kids of first cousins are tragically susceptible to serious congenital illnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cousins: A New Theory of Relativity | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...BRIEN Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison, incest or petard-hoisting anymore RUDOLPH GIULIANI His Ex-Honor criticized by fire and police unions for attending premiere of Collateral Damage. And then he actually had to sit through the film JAMES BROWN Employee sues Soul man for sexual harassment. When he said to her, "Get on up and shake your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...true that not all abortions are due to indiscretion or teenage hormones, but the majority are. Harvard Right to Life allows that the percentage of annual abortions performed for reasons of rape, incest, or medical complications is anywhere between .02 percent and 7 percent depending on the sources used, but both of these numbers leave over 90 percent of abortions being performed for other reasons. The “precious feet” pins are also a reminder to the public, then, that intrinsic to virtue is acceptance of the consequences of one’s actions...

Author: By Kevin R. Pilkiewicz, | Title: Precious Feet of the Unborn | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...That's Gross Giving birth to her first child at the age of 62 made French woman Jeanine Salomone special. Achieving motherhood by using her bachelor brother's sperm via in vitro fertilization made her repugnant to many. In the world's first case of clinical incest, the siblings duped a California fertility doctor into helping them become mom and dad - and aunt and uncle - to a baby boy. In a further twist, the boy was joined by a sister a week later after a surrogate mother, also impregnated with the brother's seed, delivered a baby girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...turns her into a solid-gold accessory. Phaeton, sporting sunglasses and yellow swimming trunks, relaxes on a raft as he confides to a therapist his troubled relationship with his father, who happens to be the Sun. Myrrha, a girl so infected by the goddess of love that she commits incest with her father, gets her comeuppance by literally melting away--her body sinking out of sight, into the pool of water that takes up most of the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gods in the Wading Pool | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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