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Despite a pro-choice President and a Democratic majority in Congress, the abortion-rights battle is set to boil again when the Congress begins considering Clinton's health-reform legislation this week. The political war reflects the public's ambivalence: a majority of Americans favor a woman's right to choose but wish she would elect to have the baby. "Most view abortion as a privacy matter," explains White House pollster Stan Greenberg. "But most abhor the act and are opposed to using tax dollars for abortions for those who can't pay for them...
Last week Thompson handed over a 40,000-word draft to White House correspondent Michael Duffy to boil down for an anticipated Sept. 20 publication. "Midnight Thursday," said Dick, without comment, "the editors decided to do a health cover this week." Working all night, he secured the detailed proposals by 8 a.m. Friday. Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame wrote the main news story with reporting from Laurence Barrett on early reaction to the plan on Capitol Hill...
...tastes. Though Nigeria is the world's 10th largest oil exporter, motorists line up for six hours to buy gasoline -- and then must bribe the attendant to fill the tank. Propane for cooking is so scarce and expensive that city dwellers are scrambling for firewood or electric teakettles to boil their drinking water, provided the water is actually running and the erratic Nigerian Electric Power Authority is having one of its rare good days. "If things keep on as they are," says Joseph Garba, a former Foreign Minister, "Nigeria will go back to the Stone...
Maybe the youngsters will move upward in their tastes, through Stephen King and V.C. Andrews to Hemingway, Joyce and Shakespeare. Or maybe they will boil the cat in the spaghetti...
Looking for hard-hitting drama, classic battles between good and evil, stories that make your skin crawl and your blood boil? Prime time has plenty to offer. In the space of one week, you could visit a psychiatric hospital that (so the story claimed) confines teenage patients with fraudulent diagnoses so it can rake in the insurance money; watch an undercover investigator expose a sleazy gas-station operator who has been cheating customers; glimpse the glittery world of two bogus Hollywood producers charged with bilking investors; and meet a creepy forensic pathologist who is accused of falsifying autopsy reports...