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...Baby Bells must have competition for local telephone business before being able to sell long-distance service. Later long-distance companies gave $160,000 to the Democrats after President Clinton threatened that he would veto the legislation. Around the time a compromise was struck, money flowed to both parties. Ann McBride, president of Common Cause, says the result of such giving is that "the integrity of the legislative process is destroyed...
...point in 1991, according to the indictment, Symington listed his net worth at $4 million for one lender; six weeks later, he told another lender he was $4.1 million in debt. Symington's lawyer, John Dowd, calls these "unintended errors and omissions.'' To confuse the issue, Symington's wife Ann Olin Pritzlaff Symington has her own inherited wealth. "When it was convenient, they called it Ann's separate property, and when it was convenient, they called it Fife's," says Manning...
...prevent the birth of a child with "grave defects." In a 5-4 vote Monday, the court said parts of the law could be enforced even if other sections were struck down as unconstitutional. The Justices, however, did not rule on the constitutionality of the provisions. TIME's Ann Donohoe reports that because this is a technical ruling, the law will be tried again in circuit court - this time on the constitutionality of its contents. Regardless, pro-choice advocates say the Supreme Court's ruling is likely to encourage state legislatures to further challenge federal abortion rulings. But Donohoe cautions...
...institutions in 1992, the NCES found that U.S. students' literacy skills rank second only to those of Finnish school children. Why the switch? Prior studies failed to account for the more demanding curriculum in U.S. schools. "The report shows how high standards are for American kids," says TIME's Ann Blackman. "Our teachers require the kids to jump through more hoops than they do in other countries." In a separate finding that black children and those whose parents failed to complete high school lag behind other U.S. students, the new study may point policy-makers toward a focus...
...these home treatment systems work? That depends, experts say, on what you want them to do. "Not every product does everything," says Nancy Culotta of Michigan's NSF International, an Ann Arbor-based industry watchdog group. Some filtering systems, she notes, merely improve the water's taste by getting rid of relatively harmless inorganic chemicals like sulfur or chlorine. Others do a creditable job of removing lead but aren't designed to purify water tainted by bacteria or other pathogens. And many of the most popular systems need to have their filters frequently replaced, or owners will wind up running...