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When Twilight opened recently in Washington, I was fortunate enough to spend a day at the brand-new and heartbreaking Holocaust Museum. Yet again, I was stunned by the Nazis' painstaking "scientific" attempts to rid the gene pool of unwanted traits. Now, barely 50 years later, science is giving us the knowledge and tools that Hitler's medical staff only dreamed of. Our society will be forced, whether it wants to or not, to answer this question and others like it: Was Hitler wrong about the Jews but right about the homosexuals...
...Mike wants to get rid of the perception that Boston politicians don't care about western Massachusetts," Bamberger says...
Fourteen years old now, Kimberly is determined to rid herself of the Twiggs forever. She has got her own attorney, who has filed to terminate the Twiggs' rights as her natural parents. Like Gregory K., the 12-year-old boy who successfully sued to be separated from his parents, she wants to "divorce" hers. She is represented by George Russ, Gregory K.'s lawyer. "She has lived in fear for five years of being taken from her father in the name of her so- called biological parents," argues Russ. "The problem is we've defined parenthood in terms of biology...
...been Gardner's decision to get rid of Brandenberg-Horn and close the gallery. One employee close to Gardner said the director was upset to see the photograph of the sign, but the employee was unsure as to whether the photograph itself prompted the removal of the sign, or whether the removal had been planned earlier. Gardner said in an interview last month that he knew what Brandenberg-Horn had done with the sign and did not mind...
...credenza is buried under small mountains of loose letters, memos and newspaper clips. Even the floors are littered with the stuff. But if the co-founder and chief executive of computer-software powerhouse Microsoft has his way, this pulp potpourri will soon recede. "I don't want to get rid of all paper," says Gates in his Redmond, Washington, headquarters. "I just don't think we should proliferate it by passing it around...