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How America can end its divorce epidemic Posted: April 7, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By David Kupelian © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com When 32-year-old Paul and his 17-year-old fiancee Anna walked into the Norristown, Pa., courthouse to apply for a marriage license, the justice turned them down flat when he learned they had known each other for only one day. Yet after much pleading and persuasion, the judge reluctantly granted them their license, and Anna and Paul were married three days later. The wedding, held at Paul's brother's house, wasn't much – only four people in attendance, no wedding gown, no flowers,...

In a decision that exposed one of the raw nerves of the criminal justice system, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that a juror who cannot put aside personal feelings of racial identification with a defendant must be dismissed. Emphatically declaring that race has no place in the jury room, the high court ruled a trial judge was correct in dismissing a juror who said that, as a black woman with children of her own, she could not "see another young black man going to jail for something really stupid." As a result, Leardee Jenkins, 20, of Franklin...

<p>Giovanni's big fingers tapped away on his laptop as he typed a 600-word assigned report on the 1815 eruption of Tambora volcano in Indonesia.</p> <p>Giovanni was into it. His eyes never left the screen and his earphones blocked out the drone of an air conditioner and chatter from a nearby table. Clicking open an encyclopedia on the wireless system, he found geology facts and carried text blocks to weave into his report.</p>