Word: mothers
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...only was he a child offender; Sean also suffered from a mental disorder. He was tried for three murders that took place in 1985 and '86: his mother Vonda, his stepfather Paul Bellofatto and Robert Bower. At trial, the jury was unaware that he suffered from multiple-personality disorder. Three mental-health experts established that Sean had severe brain damage as a result of an injury as a child. The U.S. Court of Appeal, noting that M.P.D. was "virtually unknown at the time of Sellers' trial," stated that his "illness is such that he may be able to prove...
Nobody is saying the scientists who presented their findings at the big retrovirus conference in Chicago last week had anything but the noblest of intentions. Their target was HIV, the AIDS virus, and their focus was on its smallest victims: babies born to infected mothers. Doctors knew that months of intravenous drug treatment during pregnancy can keep HIV from passing from mother to child, but the $1,000-a-day regimen is out of the question in Third World countries, where basic medical care and even clean drinking water are hard to come by. So the researchers launched a study...
...about to sing to you You Were Meant For Me for Valentine's Day--you remember that sentimental old song--when I came across this passage in Alice McDermott's novel Charming Billy, where the narrator hypothesizes that her father might not be her father if her mother's first fiance hadn't been kept so long overseas in the Navy, thus giving her dad his chance with her. Here's what McDermott has to say about that: "Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liar's courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over...
...homage to lives of greater meaning and lower cell-phone bills. Perhaps CBS's soon-to-be-shelved sitcom Maggie Winters suffered because it didn't give its heroine a holier or more wholesome life-style alternative. Instead, it relocated a dumped Faith Ford from Chicago to her mother's house in Indiana for bonding and the occasional line dance...
...programming aimed at conveying the full scope of womanhood may now have an easier time of it. NBC is trying to find a companion series to Providence that would follow it on Fridays at 9 p.m. Twentieth Century Fox is developing a Providence-type show for CBS about a mother and daughter based loosely on the life of star Amy Brenneman (formerly of NYPD Blue), whose mom is a judge...