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Planned Parenthood has filed a civil suit against those involved with "The Nuremberg Files" in Portland, Ore., alleging that the site encourages violence against abortion providers and thereby infringes upon the 1994 Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The case is the first of its kind both because it tests the boundaries of the 1994 Act with the question of whether words on a Web site can have the same deterring factor as physically blocking clinic entrances and because it questions the First Amendment rights of the Internet, asking whether the site is a purely political vehicle...
...year stint on the show just last May. The surprise move revealed much about the alarms set off at ABC over the ratings collapse of its once dominant morning show. It may also say something about how big TV-news stars can, when the fire bell rings, act like team players...
...impeachment debate would be seen as a wag-the-dog action? In that case there really would have been grounds for impeachment. Clinton would have been putting concern for his personal and political future above the good of the nation. I commend the President for having the courage to act as he did. JANE ENGLISH Mount Shasta, Calif...
Parents, clean up your act! A study of young children infected with salmonella found that in at least 35% of cases, contaminated food was not to blame. Instead the source of the bug was parents' and pets' stool and even dirt on the floor...
...Belgrade Monday to warn President Slobodan Milosevic that air strikes remain an option after Friday's massacre of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. But Sunday's renewed Serb attack on the village where 45 civilians were butchered on Friday shows Milosevic doesn't believe the West has the will to act...