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...made a big difference for Asher. He tires easily and has to conserve energy--he uses a wheelchair if he has to travel long distances. He still needs a feeding tube. And he has damage to his optic and auditory nerves, along with some cognitive impairment. Nevertheless, says his mother, "he's a really positive, upbeat boy." Now 5, Asher is in kindergarten. He takes karate lessons and is learning to play tennis. But his family is well aware that he may not survive childhood, so they're always vigilant--sometimes to a fault. One morning last week, says Reckling...
DAWKINS: I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now Dr. Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the responsibility to explain. Scientists don't do that. Scientists say, "We're working on it. We're struggling to understand...
...facility, its staff and inmates. But Eric Robert Rudolph, who is serving life without parole at the prison for the fatal bombings at the Atlanta Olympics and an abortion clinic in Alabama, has written letters to me, the author of a book about his case, and to his mother Patricia Rudolph, who has shared them with me. These missives offer a unique first-hand account of life on Bombers...
Rudolph is getting his neighbors to teach him their language. He picks it up one phrase at a time. He wrote his mother, who lives in Sarasota, Fla., that "Kyfa ta Kool," which he spelled out phonetically, means "How do you say ...?" Sometimes the other inmates are eager to communicate with Rudolph, other times they are "sulking or buried in some Arabic hell of depression...
...children are exposed to that and they're not miserable. I think I have a very good life, and a good life to offer David. You know, it's like the old saying, civil rights don't mean shit if you're dead. Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm still better than death! [laughs...