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...later and later. Then, on Sept. 27, she presented her husband Thomas with a healthy boy. The birth, she explained, happened quickly and dramatically. Her water broke, an ambulance came to take her to a hospital in Akron, and she left the facility almost immediately because of a tuberculosis scare. Thomas Bica was overjoyed. The only problem was, unknown to him and to almost anyone else, Michelle Bica had not been pregnant...
...come from Michelle Bica's phone. They paid the new mother a visit on Oct. 2. She seemed nervous. The FBI called the hospital in Akron and learned that Bica had never had any appointments there, nor had she been admitted, and there had been no tuberculosis scare. Before the police could return for another round of questioning, Michelle went to the nursery to tend to the child and minutes later, in a separate bedroom, put a .22-cal. pistol in her mouth and pulled the trigger. Investigators later dug up the newly paved driveway and garage of her home...
Tests Don't Scare...
...Appropriations committee chairman Robert Junell had legislative budget analysts project the costs to the state and made sure each legislator saw the eye-popping numbers: $600 million over two years. Democratic representative Glen Maxey saw the unsolicited analysis as an end run to scare off undecided members. "It's a higher mountain to climb," Maxey told TIME. And he, for one, has little hope of climbing...
...infringement, the DMCA would require Harvard to remove the network access of repeat offenders. Yet the concept of a "repeat" offender is not well-defined, and we encourage the University to use restraint in removing students' access to the network. Official warnings should be sufficient in most cases to scare students into compliance, and the heavy penalty of losing network access--which, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has noted, could substantially interfere with course work--should be reserved for more intransigent offenders. In developing this policy, Harvard should make sure students understand what punishments could follow from...