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...contacted by a woman who said she was pregnant with his child. McField was inclined to believe her, and when the baby girl was born, she became a doting grandmother. Now and then, however, she wondered if the girl was really her granddaughter. So one day she took a sample of her dead son's blood that the police had kept as evidence and hired a Houston company called Identigene to conduct a DNA paternity test. "I just wanted there to be no question marks," says McField. The tests showed that the little girl was not her son's; McField...
...manhunt was launched for her creator, an investigation that came to a climax with the arrest of David L. Smith, 30, in Eatontown, N.J. Smith had been tracked down in about as many hours as it took Melissa to make it around the world. The fact that a suspected virus writer got caught was unusual enough. Even stranger were the bedfellows who beat a path to his door: a Boston software entrepreneur, a Swedish student, a deputy state attorney general, the nation's largest Internet service provider, a whole passel of antivirus experts and the FBI. What these sleuths found...
...many in the education community are questioning whether the wave of anti-sweatshop protest is an indigenous resurgence of campus activism or the handiwork of a powerful outside agitator--organized labor. Since he took over the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney has brought labor's cause to campus, pouring more than $3 million into internships and outreach programs meant to interest students in careers as union activists. Indeed, it was summer stints at unions that first alerted Romer-Friedman and other students to the sweatshop issue...
Further proof that Penthouse is not a family publication: last week publisher BOB GUCCIONE took steps to evict his son and former employee Anthony from the apartment in which he'd been living since 1987. Anthony, who worked for Penthouse's parent company until 1997, claims his Manhattan loft was a gift from his father for graduating from Harvard and joining the family business. But a judge backed Guccione the elder, saying the apartment's stock certificate had never been transferred to Anthony and he had no legal claim to it. Looks as if Guccione pere, who is also estranged...
...know you've made it as an actress? When you're starring opposite Johnny Depp and the nude photos you took before you were famous start popping up in unexpected places. Right about now, CHARLIZE THERON, soon to be seen carrying Depp's baby in The Astronaut's Wife, should start considering herself a success. This month Playboy features the statuesque starlet in what she claims are unauthorized pictures taken prior to her big break. "The photos were taken expressly for the purpose of her portfolio and not for publication," says Theron's publicist. He says it was a "complete...