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 An old Stephen King interview from 2000, but it had some interesting stuff in it I hadn't heard before. I guess back then the internet wasn't something people being interviewed took into account.

Interesting Case of forced abortion here in the states

Here's an interesting case of forced abortion in the US - Wisconsin, to be exact:  

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) -- Darshana Patel told authorities she was suspicious as she watched her boyfriend stir a smoothie at an ice cream store. When he offered it to her, she noticed powder on the cup's rim, and the pregnant woman feigned illness and didn't drink it. 

There's more in the article. She'd been pregnant before this, and also lost that pregnancy. The article infers that it could have been her SO's fault for that, also, but doesn't say it outright. Not to make light of a sensitive situation, but shouldn't they have agreed on birth control or at least on whether they *both* wanted more children? It's a pretty basic issue in a relationship.

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 There's a story happening in Kansas, about an 18 year old college girl who went missing a few weeks ago. Her body was recovered late last week, but the headline on the story irks me to no end, as I'm sure it upsets and irks her family, also. Am I projecting? sure, but I'm telling you now, I sure wouldn't want my daughter's murder remembered with headlines like:

Authorities in Kansas Searching for Missing Porn Star Emily Sander 

Honestly. The girl was on a website, naked (photos have since been removed, according to the article); but the pigeonholing of her as a "Porn star" is not only overinflated, but selling the kid short. And it's sexist. But I suppose it sells papers and clicks on websites. It's still insulting as hell.

Trying to find a book is driving me mad!

Here it is: In 1993/4 I found a SF book in a bookstore and snatched it up. I can't find it now, anywhere - so I'm probably misremembering the title. I don't remember the name of the author, either. But I DO remember the plot. Help?

It's a generational ship saga. It follows the POV of a man who wakes up with no memory of who he is, or what's happening, and the story unfolds from there. Eventually, he discovers he's the captain of this ship, which is veering toward "the dark", a blank section of space; the ship's mission is partly to find other intelligent life. His main protagonist turns out to be a long-lived descendent of his second-in-command (I think) - and he himself is over 2000 years old, if not older. His antagonist turns into his friend toward the end of the book, and goes into the firey engine core (where everyone goes to die when it's time to add mass to the engines, or something like that). The captain of the ship, grown even older now, and having lost everyone during the previous part of the story, takes the generation ship (which wasn't a generation ship to start with) back to Earth - and the last paragraph shows that an alien ship is hanging out around Earth.