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...that sought to stigmatize providers. (Last week the House passed a bill making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a woman, a measure seen by someas the first step toward new limits on the procedure.) Wanting to avoid controversy and often at the behest of conservative legislatures or donors, many hospitals, which serve as the training ground for young doctors, stopped performing abortions. The practice moved instead mainly to clinics that specialized in it, which also proved more cost effective...
...Those were among the main conclusions of a panel of distinguished economists and trade experts who met at TIME's behest in Miami to consider the prospects for the FTAA. Despite many question marks surrounding the negotiations in the short term, there was a strong tone of optimism among most panelists about prospects for the deal and its beneficial effects in a faltering economic climate. There was also a firm conviction that the countries of the hemisphere are more strongly committed to the free-trade process than they often appear to be. "It is very important to distinguish substantive difficulties...
...determine that then-police chief Rahim Noor had administered the beating. (In a subsequent trial, Rahim was found guilty of the charge and he is appealing a two-month prison sentence.) Anwar argued that his convictions were the result of a conspiracy orchestrated by the police at the behest of senior government figures...
...Saudis stormed the plane at the behest of the Russians, lest it be allowed to fly on to Afghanistan - as the hijackers demanded - where the Russians would have had a much harder time dealing with the crisis. But now that they have the passengers back, the question that looms large will be whether they'll get the hijackers, too. It's by no means clear that the Saudis will rush to turn over the suspected hijackers...
CHECKED IN. Friends co-star MATTHEW PERRY, 31; to an undisclosed drug-and-alcohol rehab center; at his doctors' behest. Perry, who had been pulling double duty on the sets of Friends and a new film, Servicing Sarah, did time in rehab in 1997 for addiction to the painkiller Vicodin...