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Despite the volume of literature housed at the library, however, Kemple doesn’t know of any sliding bookcases or secret passageways that might lend themselves to skullduggery or haunting spirits. Hyperion and company would prefer not to worry about supernatural disturbances, as they already have enough earthly details to deal with that are beyond their control...
...Sever, 31, was raised by a single mother, and her grandparents were nearby for help. But now Sever is a single mom herself, and she doesn't have a support system. Her mother works full time and is often unavailable to lend a hand with Sever's son Casey, 7. "I knew I had to create a network for myself," Sever says. So in August 2000 she bought a two-family home in Highland Park, N.J., and searched for another single mom to live in the upstairs unit. At a local grocery store, she saw a house-hunting notice posted...
...about cloning, partisan politics has no place. Every senator must feel free to vote based on personal convictions, without pressure or fear of political retaliation from either side. Only a vibrant and open debate on the ethics of reproductive cloning, in the Senate and elsewhere across the world, will lend legitimacy to the decisions that are ultimately made...
...lesbian--fumed that she should have been informed, and she demanded that her voice be taken off the Oscar-nominated documentary. "Let me just say I'm anticult," she said. Her publicist elaborated, "If Rosie had known the truth about this organization, she never would have consented to lend her name and voice." The film's lawyer responded that "the inflammatory accusation that certain people affiliated with the film" are in an organization that discriminates against gays is "without foundation." The filmmakers have a chance to prove him correct by recruiting RuPaul for their next documentary...
...security challenges lend themselves to such relatively easy fixes. Airlines are testing large explosive-detection systems--machines that sniff out bombs in luggage. Congress has mandated that these machines be in service at all large airports by year's end. But sources tell TIME that the systems have been largely unreliable thus far. In some cases they average 50% error rates, confusing harmless material for deadly bombs and causing long delays. Airline officials fear the EDSs won't be able to handle the luggage of nearly 700 million passengers who fly in the U.S. each year. Former American Airlines...