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...them were abandoned, however, and the slight changes actually implemented are ineffective. Instead, the show must rely on Lane, who, for an ex-Marine known in his Reno courtroom days as "Maximum Mills," is shockingly sympathetic, if in a flinty way. Lane, 60, is straight shooting without being superior and so honest that he describes his motive for doing the show this way: "If it's successful, I could make a lot of money." Lane's world feels small, rational and exceedingly earnest...
...monasteries have demolished the stereotypical image of stern abbots and mothers superior. As has always been the case with visitors to monasteries and abbeys, there are no schedules, no expectations. No one is asked his or her religion. There are no sermons or bulletins choked with announcements and committee assignments, just the gentle rocking of the chants. Participating at services is not required, and if those on retreat spend their entire time sequestered behind closed doors or meditatively walking the often expansive acreage, the monks bless that too. "People come here and think they're supposed to sit in chapel...
...Field says, massaged preemies are discharged to their parents an average of six days earlier, shaving $10,000 off their hospital tab. With 400,000 premature babies born in the U.S. every year, the potential cost savings are apparent. And eight months after birth, Field says, massaged preemies have superior motor skills and mental development...
Despite hearing that damning litany, District of Columbia superior court Judge George Mitchell last month ordered that Pixley be moved from a detention center--where she was serving time for killing her daughter and committing credit-card fraud--to a facility that allows children, so that she could take custody of her fourth child, Cornilous, 2. In an earlier, related action, Montgomery County (Md.) circuit court Judge Michael Mason had ruled that Pixley was free of the postpartum depression that had caused her to kill her daughter, and that it was in Cornilous' "best interest" that he be returned...
...Peterson, high school sweethearts from affluent New Jersey families, went to prison Thursday for contributing to the death of their newborn infant in a Newark motel room in 1996. Grossberg was sentenced to two and a half years, while Peterson received a lesser sentence of two years because, said Superior Court Judge Henry Ridgely, he pleaded with Grossberg to seek help with the pregnancy. Both defendants could have received 10 years. Sobbing in court, Grossberg said, "I'll never be able to forgive myself for what happened." Today is her 20th birthday...