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WASHINGTON: TIME?s Elaine Shannon reports that law enforcement authorities across the U.S. ?are on heightened alert, watching as intensively as they can? to prevent violent attacks on women's clinics as abortion proponents and pro-lifers on Wednesday commemorate the 24th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973. Federal agents, who have investigated 175 clinic attacks to date, continue to search for leads as to who is responsible for two bombings at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Tulsa last week. "There is evidence, and it's evidence that could identify...
...housewife who went deaf ("They were like a comic couple," he said), Mastroianni did time in a German labor camp during World War II, then escaped to Venice and later to Luchino Visconti's famed Milan theater troupe. The screen had to claim this face, so sensitive, masculine and alert, but it took a decade or more for him to achieve true Marcellosity. In Visconti's rapturous White Nights (1957), Mastroianni spent the whole movie pleading fruitlessly for Maria Schell's love. To impress her he does a spaz-jazz dance, hilarious in its frantic clumsiness...
...cozy wrap-up to an episode of Home Improvement. Faced with a growing outcry against violence on television, some 30 top TV-industry executives convened at a White House summit last February and vowed to take action. They promised to devise a rating system for TV shows that would alert parents to programs containing high levels of violence, sex or rough language. With these ratings as a guide, parents could lock out objectionable shows by using the V chip, a device mandated in this year's Telecommunications Act and scheduled to be installed in new TV sets starting...
They didn't know how easy it was to crisscross the thin metal rods. But the Air Force knew: in 1986 and 1991 mechanics at other bases had made the same error. Their F-15 pilots were saved from certain death only because an alert ground crew and one pilot noted the flaps weren't moving properly before takeoff. But as Major Donald Lowry Jr., 36, prepared to fly on May 30, 1995, no one noticed the snafu. So Lowry's plane, instead of being lifted into the sky that Memorial Day morning, was pushed into the runway and disintegrated...
...STAY ALERT FOR LYME DISEASE