Word: tenn
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MARYVILLE, Tenn.--In an unprecendented divorce case, a woman seeking control of seven frozen embryos was awarded temporary custody yesterday by a judge who ruled that life begins at conception and that the woman should be allowed to carry them to term...
...thanks to American ingenuity, another means of thwarting the unflagging zeal of those who might enjoy seeing the flag go up in flames may be at hand. Servpro Industries of Gallatin, Tenn., a residential and commercial cleaning franchiser, is offering to fireproof its customers' flags by spraying them with a flame retardant guaranteed to protect cloth from temperatures of more than 3,000 degrees...
Such contracts might preclude the kind of puzzle raised by a Blount County, Tenn., divorce case that is still being adjudicated. Mary Sue Davis wants her and her husband's frozen embryos kept in storage in case she wishes to use or donate them. Husband Junior Davis wishes them destroyed, arguing that their use after the divorce would force him into unwanted fatherhood...
Sweetwater, Tenn., is so small (pop. 5,300), Southern and sedate that local teenagers consider it sport to ogle the traffic on Friday nights. Last week, however, residents had something unusual to engage their attention: Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, the first fully accredited Japanese high school...
...disintegrated. Last month, when the couple began divorce proceedings, seven of the fertilized eggs remained in cold storage at Knoxville's Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Now a custody battle is shaping up that may make the Baby M. case look simple by comparison: a court in Blount County, Tenn., must decide who gets the eggs...