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...matters of bioethics. "This ruling deals a death blow" to the practice, says Jeremy Rifkin of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy. About 27 states have considered legislation on surrogacy, ranging from regulation to outright prohibition. Last July Louisiana passed a law voiding surrogate contracts, and last week the Nebraska legislature voted to do the same...
...place near Oakland (where he largely spends the seven-month off-season and from where two sons have sprung to Harvard and Brown), Madden feels especially at home on the road. "America is my home," he likes to say. "I look out my window, and I see Wyoming and Nebraska, and the sycamores of Indiana, and the Hudson River. That's my front yard." Like a John Steinbeck traveling without his dog Charley, Madden is turning his journey into the third (and probably last) book. "I enjoy writing them a lot more than reading them," he says. "It's like...
...overtook McCarthy in primaries in Indiana and Nebraska, then lost to him in an upset in Oregon. With that, the party's attention shifted to the June 4 California primary. Kennedy won, with 46% of the vote, against 42% for McCarthy...
...schools talked about trying me there but said to keep receiving in mind, and maybe defensive back." This sham goes back as far as leather helmets, but the schools leaving it behind are increasing. No fewer than 15 black quarterbacks have been leading major college teams this year, including Nebraska's Steve Taylor and, until he was injured last Saturday, Oklahoma's Jamelle Holieway...
...next fact bestowed upon us is that Nebraska has 376 one-room schoolhouses. The children in those school more than likely receive a better education than do the thousands of "students" present in many of the large public school of urban centers. The resepct (or lack thereof) which many Easterners have for their own public schools is quite apparent. At the first possible opportunity, it seems, they send their children to private or selective "public" schools, while most public schools rot under piles of outdated textbooks and hordes of drugged-up juvenile delinquents (who are, for the most part, products...