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Kane County courthouse phone lines blazed with anger at the mild judicial spanking. "No one wants to see the kids back with their parents," says an official. A decision on permanent custody for the girls, now in foster care, could take a year...
...healthy adults, the symptoms are usually mild enough to go unnoticed. But for others -- notably, infants, AIDS patients and the elderly -- cryptosporidiosis can be serious, sometimes life threatening. "The wasting syndrome we see in so many AIDS patients," observes Dr. John Flaherty, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Chicago, "is most commonly due to cryptosporidiosis...
...occur to me that this would be anything but a private thing." And the Polaroid photographs he took of a nude Soon-Yi in January of last year? "She suggested that I take some pictures of her without her clothes on. I said, 'Sure.' " The problem, Allen said in mild and sometimes stuttering testimony, occurred when Farrow almost immediately discovered these snapshots on a mantelpiece in his Fifth Avenue apartment. Her fury, he testified, has resulted in "a nightmare none of us have recovered from...
...different stream every day; the rhythm of its droughts and floods, in tune with Offutt's changing perspectives on his unborn child, and above all, the still waters of the amnion that houses the fetus. The novel reaches its climax in a narrative juxtaposition; Offutt braves a surprisingly mild hurricane in Florida as his wife's water breaks and his son is born, In both cases, Offutt's anxieties prove unfounded...
...singing in the choir every Sunday he was in town, wearing robe No. 192 and bringing his family Bible with him. Unlike Jimmy Carter, who made his born-again experience as a Baptist a public testament to his integrity, Clinton is deeply reticent about his faith, even showing mild disdain for those who would play up their faith in any way. "He would turn off the TV angrily whenever a beauty contestant said her success was due to Jesus Christ," his mother Virginia Kelley once said...