Judge orders pregnant women kept in custody, citing danger to fetus. The 8-and-a-1/2-month-pregnant woman, a member of a fundamentalist sect, is suspected of concealing the death of her last child through neglect. ‘The judge said he could sense what the child would say to him.

“I want to live. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die like my brother, Jeremiah, did,” Nasif said, according to Gerald FitzGerald, a prosecutor who

attended the closed hearing.’ The ACLU opposes the detention, citing the deprivation of the woman’s right to privacy. “The law does not require parents to undergo medical procedures to benefit their born children,” said ACLU attorney Sarah Wunsch. “It certainly

cannot force a pregnant woman to be treated on behalf of her fetus.” Nando Times

Cray for sale on eBay: “There is a Cray Y-MP C90 supercomputer for sale on eBay. The current

bid as this is written is US$44,500.69. The system features 16

processors, 4 GB of main memory, 4 GB of solid state storage, and 130

GB of RAIDed hard drive space. The original price in 1991 was $10

million.” Geek.com

NewsWatch is back, with a long article about the Renata Adler — Judge Sirica flap.

Tunku Varadarajan writes the rant about the media frenzy over Diana and her death that’s been needed ever since. “Yesterday was the third anniversary of the death, in a motor accident in Paris, of Princess Diana of

Wales. I am flooded with gloom.

The darkness of my mood, lest you misunderstand, comes not from a rekindled sense of loss. Instead, it

flows from my recollection of the vulgarity and gaudy grief that swept through our lives after the death of

that meretricious, banal and empty-headed woman.” WSJ

A lucid introduction to the philosophical discipline called model theory, one way of dissecting the nature of the relationship between language and world. Lingua Franca

Boston ‘s WCVB-TV is still on the fence about whether to carry the Dr. Laura show, which debuts in four days. And there’ll be no one more surprised than the anti-Schlessinger activists if the station breaks ranks and rejects the show. Boston Globe

Poor literal Texas, compelled to confer legal blessings on a lesbian marriage, because one of the women used to be a man. As Bexar County Clerk Gerard C. Rickoff

observed, “You are what you

are by your Creator.”