Word: bypassers
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...parents before an abortion if the law allows minors to go to a judge instead. In a 6-to-3 vote, the court upheld Ohio's requirement that a physician notify one parent of a pregnant minor of her intent to have an abortion; it also provided for judicial bypass...
...close votes and the widely divergent opinions reveal a court still divided over abortion and, in these cases, over the state of the family. Justice Anthony Kennedy voted to uphold the Minnesota law, with or without the judicial bypass, reasoning that to keep parents in the dark about a daughter's abortion "is to risk, or perpetuate, estrangement or alienation from the child when she is in the greatest need of parental guidance and support." But even he conceded that at times "notifying one or both parents will not be in the minor's best interest...
...recent years I've even stopped pretending that a particular day's game interests me. I not only bypass the front page, but the box score too. While the rest of my body would rather be in bed, my fingers rush to page four, where the standings give me the immediate gratification I crave...
...Clowns of God. Lazarus (St. Martin's Press; 293 pages; $19.95) completes Morris West's papal trilogy. Few laymen have written so knowledgeably about Vatican politics. West charts the course of Leo XIV, a crusty soul who has alienated the liberals in his flock. Now the Pontiff must undergo bypass surgery, and as if that were not threat % enough, Muslim terrorists are offering $100,000 for his life. Pope Leo returns from the operation like Lazarus from the dead. But he is a changed man, with plans to alter his church for the better. It is then that the assassin...
...play tennis or golf again. In short, + they contemplate an existence drained of usefulness and joy. The spark goes out of their souls. It may help for these people to know that in addition to the miracles that modern medicine can perform, the heart can make its own bypass around the occluded arteries and that collateral circulation can provide a rich supply of oxygen. A heart attack need not be regarded as consignment to a mincing life-style. Under circumstances of good nutrition, a reasonable amount of exercise and a decrease in the wear and tear of stressful events, life...