Word: 24th
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Enrile seems to have changed his mind. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the independent Commission on Elections to proclaim him the winner of the contested 24th Senate seat. Some commission members had been criticized for delaying a final decision to keep out Enrile. Declared the victor: "The decision is a triumph of justice and fairness...
...will still be "to boldly go where no man has gone before," but when the Paramount TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation blasts off in October, don't expect to see Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock or any of the old crew at the blinking controls. Set in the 24th century, 76 years after the original series, the refitted Enterprise will feature, along with new sets and special effects, a fresh crew, including a blind lieutenant, a superstrong android, a half-human, half-Betazoid female counselor, and a captain named Jean Luc Picard, played by British Actor Patrick Stewart...
...that much different from what it was at the time of Roe v. Wade," says Dr. Alan Fleischman, director of neonatology at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center. "There is a biological limit to what we can do." Even at the most sophisticated hospitals, babies born before the 24th week of gestation or weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lb.) have virtually no chance of survival. Meanwhile, fewer than 1% of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year occur after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Unless there are major technological breakthroughs, concludes Janet Benshoof, director...
...past six years, South Korea has labored to make the 1988 Summer Olympic Games -- the 24th of the modern Olympiad -- into a statement of the country's arrival as a sophisticated and confident middle power. But amid last week's tear gas and flaming Molotov cocktails, the linked rings of the Olympic flag had become not only a symbol of national aspirations but also an emblem of international worry. Around the world, a growing number of sports and political figures were voicing concern about whether South Korea would be able to stage the Games free from boycotts or violence...
...four carloads of bearded gunmen. After being struck with rifle butts, he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the assailants' autos. Dragged off with him was Ali Osseiran, 40, son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, and their bodyguard- | driver. Glass became the ninth U.S. citizen and 24th foreigner to be held hostage in Lebanon...