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...appear in order to establish the practices of the sperm bank and keep other donors from supplying genetically questionable specimens. Donor 276's lawyers claim the subpoena is a violation of their client's right to privacy, but the California Supreme Court took the Johnsons' side, passing down their judgment without comment: The appellate decision, ordering the donor to appear in court, will stand. And so there may be a very weird moment looming on Donor 276's horizon, in which he encounters the reality of a daughter he'd never imagined...
...spend a summer afternoon by the pool discussing daylight saving time. And he is routinely described as, well, goofy, the kind of guy who, when he realized he had no music, clipped the Wall Street Journal's list of top-100 CDs and bought them all, an abdication of judgment that sometimes leaves the couple's dinner parties sound-tracked by Milli Vanilli...
...matter how well intended they are, controlled-drinking programs like Moderation Management are dangerous and deluding for problem drinkers. This approach provides a welcome excuse to keep drinking and drinking. Controlled-drinking efforts ignore the physiological fact that alcohol races to the centers of the brain for judgment and control, quickly diminishing the ability and desire to control drinking. JAMES F. GARVIN, FOUNDER The Natural High Society Albuquerque...
...easy. The Last Meal Requests page records numerous instances of requests for a final cigarette. And these, the site notes, are denied in accordance with department policy. Could it be that the policy is designed to protect the condemned men's health? It could simply be based on the judgment that a cigarette is a pleasure that should be denied a man who has committed crimes ugly enough to warrant execution. But then why allow the same man the pleasure of choosing his last meal, as opposed to simply giving him whatever the prison kitchen was serving that...
...JUDGMENT CALL Very, very hot despite--or because of--its danger...