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...this, and I offer that I am, too. I tell him I've got a headache and am going for a jog to clear it. My route when visiting home is a seven-mile loop through West Chelmsford, past the house where I lived from birth to age seven, then through Nabnasset and back on Dunstable Road to Berkeley Drive. As I jog I think a lot of things, most of them lighter than dark. She'll never go to another ballgame. She'll never watch baseball with Daddy again...
...Bannon recalled last week. The card had been signed by "Tweeds" Bush in cherry-red ink, presumably to distinguish his signature from those of three lesser stickball officials. Above the names were spaces for descriptive data, such as weight, height, hair and eye color and, most critically, date of birth. Bannon rushed back to his dorm and typed in a fake name ("Everett B. Ford"), address and his team name: the Trojans. He then affixed his school picture as a special touch. "When classmates saw the finished product, they got on board," says Bannon. "The line for lamination...
FORTIFYING RESULTS Just two years after folic acid, a B vitamin, was added to many grain products in the U.S., certain birth defects of the brain and spine are down 19%. Enriched food provides about a quarter of the 400 micrograms a day that experts say women of childbearing age need. The rest can come from supplements, hyperfortified cereals and leafy green vegetables...
...FRANCE Her Brother's Baby A 62-year-old Frenchwoman gave birth to a child conceived from a donated egg fertilized by her brother's sperm. Jeanine used the brother's sperm to ensure an heir to an estimated $2 million inheritance. A boy, Benoît-David, was born on May 14 after fertility treatment in California. The egg donor, an American woman, also bore a child, a virtual twin girl named Marie-Cécile, conceived using Jeanine's brother Robert's sperm. The story caused widespread controversy...
...success in breaking the movement, the government has not yet addressed the sense of spiritual emptiness that gave birth to Falun Gong. Incense smoke flows thick in Buddhist temples across China, and the number of Christians has increased tenfold to about 40 million since the communists first swept to power. Even Liu Shujuan, the apostate who now leads people away from the movement, still seems ambivalent about her conversion. "It's hard to say," she responds when asked if she would still practice if the government hadn't banned Falun Gong. A pause. A glance at her minders. "I think...