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...Wednesday morning in front of a Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic a mile from the White House was not aimed at the center. According to police, the explosion occurred after a hotel worker picked up the fuse for a practice grenade from the street. Federal officials, already on top alert for a possible wave of violence on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, thought at first that the explosion must be connected to the adjacent clinic. Early reports said that the man carrying the device had been seen running toward the Mayflower Hotel, where Vice President...
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...
...STAY ALERT FOR LYME DISEASE