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...fact, Rowling has tried to throw a cloak of invisibility around her family so they can live almost normal lives. But simple pleasures like strolling to the supermarket at home in Edinburgh or attending Jessica's Christmas pageant require constant vigilance against an army of tabloid reporters and the occasional stalker...
...judge found that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud." It felt, Rowling says, "as if some strange woman had come out of nowhere saying she was my children's mother ... It was like a punch in the stomach. People think that if you have been successful, you are insulated from normal feelings of hurt, but you aren...
...hours a week more than the 26 hours of instruction they performed earlier. The problems extend to higher education. Heike Gundermann, spokeswoman for Humboldt University, Berlin's oldest, says the cutbacks may mean the elimination of 500 professorial or scientific positions. It's also possible, Gundermann says, that the normal intake of 5,000 students per semester may have to be scaled back. Says Christhard Gössling, director of Berlin's famed Hanns Eisler Academy of Music: "Although the cutbacks are not huge, they are for us a matter of life and death." He says the cuts would eliminate...
When an engineer at a semiconductor factory in Watertown, Mass., collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest, David Collins, the plant's health-and-safety manager, was on the scene in two minutes with an automated external defibrillator (AED), a device that can jolt a heart back to its normal rhythm. precious minutes before paramedics could arrive, Collins followed prompts from the AED and gave the engineer two electric pulses that saved his life...
...family-planning officials to abort. She submits, but the baby survives. When the woman refuses to let the doctors "dispose" of her infant son, the book says practitioners should "act according to the one-child policy... [and] point out that because medical abortions can affect a child's normal development, she should abandon" her protests and allow euthanasia. If that doesn't work, the authors say, "let the family-planning office decide." Of course, that office ordered the abortion in the first place...