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...registered under a phony name, hours after giving birth to a girl. A search was made for the infant's biological parents, and Pellegrino's parental rights were terminated a few weeks afterward; the abandoned baby was placed for adoption. A few months later, Pellegrino reappeared and sued to regain custody, which would mean taking the baby out of a secure home and sending her to live with her mother in a homeless shelter. Late last year the state supreme court granted Pellegrino custody, evoking an enormous public outcry. "The best interests of the child were totally ignored," says state...
...with the good presumption that it is in the best interests of children to be with their families, unless for some reason the family is inadequate," says Carole Anderson, vice president of Concerned United Birthparents, which is trying to restrict adoptions and strengthen the rights of birth parents to regain custody of children they have released. To reward the DeBoers' intransigence by letting them keep the child, Anderson says, would put all families in jeopardy. "If a noncustodial parent can come along and take a child in defiance of a court order," she says, "and get to another state...
...militant antiabortion groups to avoid his area. "I do not find Operation Rescue to be a positive element in the pro-life movement," he said, "and I just wish they'd stay wherever they are." Operation Rescue ignored his plea. This week the group's challenge will be to regain the confidence of its less radical fellow believers...
...County, Virginia, cut off his penis while he slept, then drove off with the severed organ and tossed it out her car window. After police found it on the roadside, surgeons reattached the penis in a rare 9 1/ 2-hour operation. Doctors were optimistic that the man would regain most functions...
...Clinic. Says Lyn Almon, a dietitian at Emory University Hospital: "There are so many mixed messages bombarding dieters that some people are throwing up their hands and going back to their old eating habits. There's a feeling, 'If I'm going to lose the weight and then just regain it, why start?' " The fast-food companies are keeping salads on the menu and offering a greater variety of other items, but they have lost their illusions about attracting many people who still count calories. Admits Kentucky Fried Chicken vice president Steve Provost: "People just...