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...idea of surrogate parenting has kept professional ethicists and jurists wringing their hands ever since the first case surfaced in 1978. Is it proper to "rent" a womb by paying a stranger to bear a child? What if the surrogate mother changes her mind? But now a heartwarming situation has come along in which the moral quandaries pale before that most basic of human instincts: the desire of a parent to take on and take away the pain of a child...
Thompson has also run into trouble with his proposed Parental and Family Responsibility Initiative, dubbed "Bridefare" by critics. The Governor prefers to call it "Make Room for Daddy" and insists that the program will make fathers more responsible for their children. Says Republican state representative Susan Vergeront: "The concept of trying to promote two-parent families makes good sense." But Democratic state representative Barbara Notestein brands it "a state-sponsored shotgun wedding," and adds, "No one objects to bringing fathers in, but should the government do something that encourages teenagers to get married and limit their options...
...beatifically happy with the panorama of this world. When Pee-wee talked to inanimate objects, like chairs, they talked back, which, as everyone under 10 knows, is just what they are supposed to do. This man-boy with the tight suit, googly eyes and lipsticked mouth was not every parent's cup of tea: add a leer and the little guy could pass for the emcee of a Berlin nightclub, circa 1935. But few had any qualms about their offspring spending time in his company: at the movies (Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee-wee) or watching...
...grand jury hearing evidence presented by Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau was readying the first of a series of indictments against B.C.C.I. officials and others in a case stemming from the bank's secret ownership of First American Bankshares, the parent of Washington's largest bank. Among those testifying before the New York jury was former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, the chairman of First American, who has denied knowing that B.C.C.I. owned his banking firm...
...determined drive to pare its debt, Time Warner last week launched a much anticipated plan to raise $2.8 billion in the largest stock offering in ) U.S. history. The entertainment and information giant, the parent of TIME, granted stockholders securities called rights to buy 34.5 million new shares of Time Warner for $80 a share. The deal, which gave stockholders 0.6 of a right for every common share they owned, replaced a hotly controversial proposal that would have priced the stock at anywhere from $63 to $105 a share, depending on how many stockholders participated. Time Warner scrapped that plan after...