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Meanwhile, the Sixth Circuit is facing another conflict: Judge Danny Bloggs, in an appendix to his dissenting opinion, implied that court policy had been contravened in order to select judges favorable to Michigan's cause. His claim was a "new low," said Sixth Circuit colleague Judge Karen Nelson Moore, and would irreparably damage "already strained working relationships." Could the Supreme Court fix those too? --By Amanda Bower
BEAST OF THE BELLY Despite all kinds of hi-tech diagnostic tools, like CT scans and laparoscopies, doctors don't always know when an appendix is inflamed enough to justify removing it. Each year as many as 40,000 unnecessary appendectomies are performed, mostly on women. Reason: tucked away in the back of the belly, the tiny appendix is hard to view...
...Eight a.m. (eastern time) approached. Computer generated animations showed the death house rooms and the leather gurney on which McVeigh would lie, to go to sleep, as if to have his appendix out - but not to wake. There was an atmosphere of subdued media circus - not satisfactorily macabre, however, since the entire performance was concealed behind a weird scrim of discretion and vagueness, none of us knowing exactly the moment when Timothy McVeigh died. His life winked out unobserved by the millions. This was capital punishment as a sort of Zen, the sound of one hand clapping...
...four students were formally charged with violating the Rights and Responsibilities section of the law school catalog, found in Appendix A of the book...
...What we do is take away obstacles," says Upledger, "like removing stones from the road." And that, he might add, has proved far easier than cutting out an appendix in the center of a storm...