Mar 27, 2008 -
Rite Aid has started selling DNA paternity tests over the counter. For just $29.99 plus a $119 lab fee, US dads can figure out if that kid they’ve emotionally invested in and raised for years is actually theirs.
All it requires is a cheek swab from the mother, the man, and the child.
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Oct 21, 2007 -
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Sep 21, 2009 -
What's up with John Edwards? If you had him on Google Alert this weekend, your e-mail inbox would have been swamped after the New York Times published a story speculating about whether the two-time Democratic presidential candidate – who has already admitted to two-timing his wife of more than 30 years, Elizabeth Edwards – is ready to admit he fathered a child with a former campaign worker. In August 2008, Edwards, after earlier denials, confirmed that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter, a videographer he met on his 2008 campaign.
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Sep 03, 2009 -
Children with older fathers have a significantly increased risk of having autism, a study has concluded.
The UK and US researchers examined data on 132,271 children and said those born to men over 40 were six times more at risk than those born to men under 30.
They said the study in Archives of General Psychiatry was further proof men also had "biological clocks".
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Sep 17, 2009 -
Will he ever speak to me again?
Was with a man for over a year - on and off for the last 6 months. A year and a bit.
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Sep 15, 2009 -
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/
Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes
By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM
Tom Brokaw.
With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.
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Jun 02, 2009 -
Spitting in the eye of mainstream education
Three no-frills charter schools in Oakland mock liberal orthodoxy, teach strictly to the test -- and produce some of the state's top scores.
By Mitchell Landsberg
May 31, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-charter31-2009may31,0,6518091,full.story
Reporting from Oakland -- Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. .
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May 27, 2009 -
DHAKA (AFP) — A 22-year-old unmarried Bangladeshi woman who was caned 39 times for alleging a neighbour was the father of her son is fighting for her life in hospital, police said.The case has shocked the impoverished Muslim-majority nation, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ordering the woman to be shifted from her village home to the capital for proper medical treatment.
Local police chief Moshiur Rahman told AFP that the woman, from Comilla, 70 kilometres (43 miles) east of the capital Dhaka, had angered Islamic clerics when she told friends that a neighbour had fathered her six-year-old son.They called her and the alleged father to appear before a makeshift Islamic court, but the man denied the paternity claim, Rahman said.
"He held a Koran in one hand and swore to the village clerics that he was not the father of the boy.
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May 21, 2009 -
A Texas woman wasn't planning on two conceptions for the record books.
But that's what she got — along with two beautiful boys — when she gave birth to twins of different fathers nearly a year ago.
"Both of them have similar appetites.
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May 12, 2009 -
I met my boyfriend a year and 4 months ago while studying at another university a few states away under absolute fairytale conditions- it was love at first sight, he was handsome, we had a blast, everything seemed perfect, and he treated me like a queen. When I left, he and I had made plans for him to relocate near me and for us to keep seeing each other. We talked on the phone several times a day and everything seemed perfect, like before.
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