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July 16, 2007
Check out your doctor’s rating
July 16, 2007
Enticing Ad, Little Cash and Then a Lot of Regret
July 14, 2007
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Angelique Trammel, a single mother and a telephone operator in Silver Spring, Md., needed a computer for her son but had little cash or credit. So she was intrigued by a flier promising guaranteed approval, with no credit check, to buy a laptop on a “low weekly payment plan.”
Last July, Ms. [...]
July 16, 2007
Our Changing World
July 16, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
When 3 Really Is a Crowd
By ELIZABETH MARQUARDT
Chicago
SOMETIMES when the earth shudders it doesn’t make a sound. That’s what happened in Harrisburg, Pa., recently.
On April 30, a state Superior Court panel ruled that a child can have three legal parents. The case, Jacob v. Shultz-Jacob, involved two lesbians who were the legal [...]
July 16, 2007
Preparing for a Broken Home
July 16, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor – Miller
A FRIEND from business school, just engaged, boasted recently not about the virtues of his wife-to-be but about the Byzantine process he and she had gone through in constructing what he considered the finest of prenuptial agreements, as if there were some sort of poetry in the laborious detail involved [...]
July 16, 2007
Mom says chatty toddler got her kicked off flight
ATLANTA (AP) — A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked off a plane after she refused a flight attendant’s request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying “Bye bye, plane.”
Kate Penland, of suburban Atlanta, said she and her 19-month-old son, Garren, were flying from Atlanta to [...]
July 16, 2007
Your Gamete, Myself
July 15, 2007
By
PEGGY ORENSTEIN
Two Years ago, when Catherine was in sixth grade, she was given a school assignment that would have been unremarkable for most kids: make a timeline for history class in which half the events occurred before she was born and half after. For a while, she worked quietly at the dining-room table [...]
July 16, 2007
The Fall of an Arrogant Fraud: What Really Brought Down Conrad Black’s Media Empire?
By Christopher Silvester, The Independent
Posted on July 16, 2007, Printed on July 16, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/56947/
Conrad Black used to keep a picture of the Chicago gangster Al Capone on the silk-lined wall of Hollinger International’s New York boardroom and would jokingly point him out to visitors as “our chief shareholder.” Unlike Capone, who was convicted of tax [...]
July 16, 2007
Doing Time on the Outside: Falling in Love with a Prisoner-for-Life
By Bridget Kinsella, SMITH Magazine
Posted on July 16, 2007, Printed on July 16, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/56945/
After meeting through a now-defunct writing program at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison, journalist Bridget Kinsella began a correspondence with, and eventually visited, Rory Mehan, a 30-year-old man serving life without parole for a revenge murder. Their first visit was followed [...]
July 16, 2007
HPV and Cervical Cancer Facts
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 50 percent of sexually active men and women become infected with Human Papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in their lives. Because the virus is so pervasive, by age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. It is [...]
