MY 2-YEAR-OLD son sometimes points to the mailman and gleefully shouts, ``Grandpa!" I am reasonably sure that this is because the mailman, like my own father, has white hair. Yet reading the work of evolutionary psychologists can sow doubts in a man's mind.

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Consumers spend millions on DNA tests

KVOA.com, AZ - Aug 27, 2006
... July. New York does not permit in-home paternity testing, and the FDA is looking more closely at licensing pharmacogenetic tests. ...

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Figuring out children's fathers
Aug. 13, 2006 12:00 AM
When Larry Hillblom, the "H" in DHL Worldwide Express, died in 1995, he left an estate worth $600 million and no heirs.

Because his will was silent on the subject of children, anyone who could prove to be his child was entitled to an inheritance. Four Asian women claimed they had given birth to children fathered by a philandering Hillblom and, as a result of DNA paternity tests, two Filipino girls, a Vietnamese boy and a teenage boy from Guam named Junior Larry Hillblom collected $90 million each.

Paternity testing plan might need to expand after first go-around
Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006
OUR VIEW
The idea of offering free paternity tests to help Delaware children get what's legally theirs struck us as a worthy and overdue program. Administered through the Division of Child Support Enforcement, it would also provide kids with valuable medical backgrounds in their later years when the medical history of parents is often critical for a diagnosis.

"Getting fathers to acknowledge their children legally by getting their name on the birth certificate is critical to the physical, emotional and financial well-being of any child," said Charles Hayward, director of the division.

Toves hoping to get job, life back together
By Valerie Lynn M. MaiguePacific Daily News
vmmaigue@guampdn.com
James Cruz Toves, a former Department of Public Works bus driver accused of rape, is hoping that he can get his job and his life back together after his attorney filed a motion to dismiss the criminal case against him.

"He's hoping that DPW will move quickly to reinstate him immediately and provide all the back pay that they owe him," said Attorney Mike Phillips, who is representing Toves. "He wants to move on with his family and hopes the attorney general's office takes steps to ensure this does not happen to another innocent person."

Fighting the jacket

ASK RBMonday, August 21, 2006

Dear RB,
Someone I love has been ordered by the court to pay child support for a child whom he does not believe he fathered. He and the baby's mother were living together as a couple and he came home one day and caught her in bed with another man.She also had a relationship with his cousin to whom the baby bears a striking resemblance. She does not want to take a paternity test and I believe that is because she knows the baby is not his. He signed the birth certificate and is more than willing to take care of the child if it is his biological child.- Fighting the Jacket