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Playing God

Is your spouse spending too much time with the PC again? Does she emerge looking bleary-eyed, strangely distant yet somehow satisfied? Is he unable to provide a good excuse for skipping dinner? Don't be alarmed, and don't point the finger at playboy (or playgirl).com The explanation could be quite simple: your husband probably just placed a toxic-waste dump in New York City's Central Park and wanted to see whether the police could handle the inevitable riots. Or perhaps your wife was overseeing earth's first space colony, and had to decide between building creches in all her bases and laser-blasting...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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