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...Complementing a raft of proposed amendments to the Family Law Act, the plan's centerpiece is a nationwide network of Family Relationship Centres (FRCs), where counselors will help separating parents work out a parenting plan before their anger and hurt - perhaps occasionally stoked by lawyers - can mutate into intransigence. And a task force, established by the government last August and headed by University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, will report soon with ideas on reforming that instrument of justice that enrages separated parents, mostly fathers, as nothing else does: the wage-garnishing Child Support Scheme...
...raft of recent books have toasted the Founding Fathers--particularly Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. That open letter to the British Crown gave us our most eloquent enunciation of our belief in individual liberties. But it remains at core a historical document with no legal standing. It is, by contrast, through the Constitution--the governing instrument that Montesquieu inspired and James Madison nominally fathered--that we organize and regulate our hectic American works and days. So why is there so much clinking of fine crystal for Jefferson while Montesquieu has gone missing...
...years and, amid a poor investment climate, fared worse than those who stuck with the old state-run pension system. The government ended up cutting incentives to shift into private accounts, and unscrupulous financial advisers put many workers in unsuitable investments, leading to new calls for reform and a raft of lawsuits...
...Trips cost between $1,400 and $5,000, all-inclusive, and must be booked about 18 months in advance. Arizona Raft Adventures, tel: (1-800) 786 7238; www.azraft.com, offers trips of up to 16 days, in which passengers can paddle, kayak, motorboat or be rowed by a guide. And travelers looking for variety might like Western River Expeditions' six-day rafting trip that ends with a helicopter ride out of the Canyon and a flight to Las Vegas, tel: (1-801) 942 6669, www.westernriver.com. Not exactly Powell's idea of adventure, but still a true American West experience...
THREE YEARS BEFORE John Fitch began contemplating the absurd--a boat powered by steam, not wind or men with oars--a warring band of Delaware Indians seized his raft, which was heading up the Ohio River with flour for settlers. The Indians scalped two of his companions; Fitch narrowly escaped a tomahawk blow to the head. This was his second brush with death at the hands of the Delaware tribe, whose swift canoes in 1782 often rendered the settlers' plodding rafts easy prey...