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But it was the gag rule that really got doctors steamed. The Supreme Court case centered on the Public Health Service's Title X program, created during the Nixon Administration to provide family-planning services to low-income women. The original act stated explicitly that federal funds were not to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctors Take On Bush | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

All these proposals have the merit of being specific and thus open to debate. The improvement wrought by "enslaved person" over "slave" may not strike everyone as immediately apparent; to Americans who know their own history, "slave" is a word heavily charged with the connotations of brutal, involuntary degradation. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Stories: Whose America? | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

At first glance the Thai system, which is being considered for possible adoption by Indonesia and the Philippines, seems harmless enough. Every citizen over age 15 will be required to carry a card bearing a color photo, various pertinent facts (name, address and so on) and an identification number. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Big Brother | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

Romanian adoption authorities now want to implement a tougher law, expected to be passed by parliament this week. The measure punishes baby selling with prison terms and requires that all foreign adoptions be approved by a special committee. Declared the Foreign Ministry: "The selling and buying of children has to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROMANIA: No Longer For Sale | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

But even Walt, ambitious social engineer that he was, might have been taken aback by the adoption of his commercial vision as Orlando's urban-planning model. Many new arrivals value the place because it offers the virtues of an escape: it is a suburban sprawl that strives to eliminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orlando, Florida: Fantasy's Reality | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

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