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...harmless, but can be fatal or brain-damaging if passed to infants in the birth canal...
...went into the magazine. I was to note that I had checked each word by placing a dot over it (and by placing a dot over each letter of every proper noun to show that I had verified the spelling). In an article about the construction of the Panama Canal, for example, a caption read, "A seventy-five-foot-high canal lock gate swings shut at Gatun...
...only to look up "Gatun" in an atlas to verify the spelling (and to verify that it is actually a location on the Panama Canal), but also to find out whether the canal lock gate at Gatun is actually 75 feet high, and whether it is in fact swinging shut in the picture. Soon I was scanning through books about canal locks, searching through various technical reference manuals and finding absolutely nothing. A call to engineers in Panama was also no help. No, no, no, it's all wrong, they told me. The gate at Gatun is actually 77 feet...
BORN: July 31, 1945, Smithtown, N.Y. EDUCATION: Harvard U, B.A., 1966, J.D., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, Susan; five children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, 1981-86; assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1986-88; Governor, 1990- ADDRESS: 90 Canal Street, Fourth Floor, Boston...
ABORTION. House: Would you have voted for the bill to ban so-called partial-birth abortions, in which the doctor removes the fetus' brain tissue after bringing the fetus into the birth canal? Under the bill, doctors who perform the procedure could be subject to criminal and civil penalties. [H: HR1833. Passed, H vote: 288-139] Senate: Would you have voted for the amendment to a bill prescribing criminal and civil penalties for doctors who perform so-called partial-birth abortions? The amendment would have provided legal protections for doctors who used the procedure to protect the life or health...