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John O'Connor, a Cambridge resident, is a community and environmental activist. The Democratic primary will be held Sept...
Marc Klaas of Sausalito, Calif., who became an activist against child molesters after his daughter Polly was kidnapped and killed, spoke at the Berkeley protest. "Fate gave David Cash the opportunity to be heroic, and he turned his back on that opportunity," Klaas declared. "He was in the singular position of being able to save a seven-year-old child, and he chose to do nothing. For that, he will have to answer to his own withered soul forever...
...ruined his Administration's crucial sixth year (typically a two-term President's last best hope for getting big things done) and perhaps his seventh and eighth as well. Clinton's bid to define his place in history--by launching the age of postdeficit politics with a small but activist domestic agenda--is all but over. Ken Starr is writing the legacy...
...mostly children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems. In all cases, antibiotics are not only useless but may actually make things worse, causing the bacteria to rupture and spill their toxin even more widely throughout the gut. Says Nancy Donley, a safe-food activist whose son died of E. coli infection: "We're not talking about minor gastrointestinal distress. It is a brutally ugly death...
Nobody likes being accosted by a clipboard-carrying activist, however noble the cause. But now you can weigh in on an issue in peace. A visit to www.e-thepeople.com (it launches Aug. 1) lets you search by topic for a petition you might want to sign, start your own petition or send a letter to almost any official, from a local parks commissioner to a U.S. Senator. Not sure to whom to vent? Search for the right recipient; if that office doesn't have an e-mail address, your message is faxed. Afraid of spam? Don't be: your e-mail...