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...restriction of personal relationships, and suddenly spreading the Good Word becomes a very complicated deed indeed. “It’s the most destructive religious group I’ve ever seen,” the Rev. Robert Watts Thornburg, dean of BU’s Marsh Chapel, has said...
...took his car to Test & Tune and ate at Wanda's Restaurant. Over the past four years, he brought three bodies to a nearby crematory, telling co-owner Glenda Wilson his equipment was down and he needed a favor, she says. She always complied, free of charge. The Marsh clan went about the business of living, all the while surrounded by rotting corpses...
Back in Georgia, Representative Mike Snow has introduced a bill to require all crematories to be licensed. The irony is acute, since in 1992, Snow had introduced an amendment to exempt the Marsh place from inspection for two years--at Ray Marsh's request. When the coroner complained in 1995 that Marsh wasn't licensed, Marsh's lawyers convinced the state attorney general that Marsh was exempt. The Marsh place only dealt with funeral homes and thus did not fit the state's definition of a crematory as a facility open to the public...
...there's real value to having your peers cheer you on, says Merle Marsh, a prep-school administrator and author of several parents' guides to the Net, including Everything You Need to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask Kids) About the Information Highway (Computer Learning Foundation). Marsh applauds the site for encouraging young people to read and write; she only wishes they weren't writing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "It would be better if they were coming up with their own characters," she says, "but maybe this is the way they need to start...
...Marsh is more concerned that a site so popular with the under-18 set is unsupervised and doesn't restrict access to mature material--such as the NC-17-rated tales involving J.K. Rowling's Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape submitted by a girl whose online bio says she's 13. But censorship would be counter to Li's vision of an online community free to share its stuff, raw and uncut--as long as the graphic material is clearly marked. "I know how hard these writers work, and I respect it," says Li. Running the site takes 25 hours...