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...genetic fingerprinting "a massive invasion of personal privacy," Joachim Jacob, Germany's Commissioner for Data Protection, is moving to ban DNA paternity tests. It's unfair that "the unauthorized opening of a letter is a criminal offense, while clandestine paternity tests are not," he says. "Just imagine a mother-in-law has a suspicion and endangers the whole family structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fathers of Contention | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...Walker County Civic Center in hopes of putting them to rest--again. "One woman had her mama in her lap. The next one had her uncle. The next one had her brother," recalls Gary Guy, 50, who had come from Ringgold, Ga., to track down his mother-in-law's body. "How in the world could this have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead And Forsaken | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...moment I thought another plane had crashed. My wife was watching TV in the next room, when suddenly I heard moaning and then, "Oh, no!" The phone rang not 10 sec. later--my mother-in-law. "Did you see it?" she said. Her voice was loud and agitated. She demanded to speak with her daughter. I was worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, Certainty! | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...minutes later, I found out what was wrong: a pair of Canadian figure skaters had been cheated out of a gold medal by dicey judging. In other words, no one had died--a huge relief. But try telling that to my Canadian mother-in-law. She called every hour for the rest of the evening, breathless with news of scandal and skulduggery. The unfairness! The horror! Her outrage was infectious. When I sat down to watch the Olympics the next night, I felt excitable too and strangely absorbed--not only by the skating controversy but by the Games in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, Certainty! | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...find anyone on Capitol Hill these days opposed to new protections for 401(k)s. No members of Congress want voters to think they don't care about Enron employees who watched their retirement savings disappear into a black hole of creative accounting. Talking of how his mother-in-law lost $8,000 in Enron stock, President Bush put together a Cabinet team to study the issue. Senators Barbara Boxer and Jon Corzine are pushing a bill that would limit the amount of an employer's stock in its 401(k) plan and ease restrictions on how soon employees could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Lawmakers Now Afford To Be Obstacles To Reform? | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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