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...wake of the salacious presidential scandal, an important anniversary was nearly forgotten by much of the press last week: the 25th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States. Although abortion should not be the only issue a citizen considers in the voting booth, it certainly must be considered an important one. The legalization of abortion was a watershed for the validity of individual rights, but a tragic miscalculation of who can enjoy those rights...
Starr's defenders will surely argue that what he is doing--coercing incriminating testimony--is business as usual for prosecutors. That does not make it right, either against the President or an ordinary citizen...
...escaped his notice that some of the changes the body goes through as it ages--the breakdown of bones and the immune system, for example--are identical to the ones it goes through in zero-G. What better way to study both phenomenons than to send a senior citizen into space...
...argument had merit--not least because that senior citizen was Glenn. The seven Mercury astronauts were perhaps the most exhaustively studied human beings in history, with medical dossiers going back to the 1950s. Such documentation would provide a priceless baseline of data if anyone cared to study the same subjects four decades later. Two of the seven astronauts have died, and four have long since got the foolishness of space travel out of their heads. Only Glenn was available to make the trip, and two years after he offered his services, Goldin bit. "This is a signal that...
...Cuban American and naturalized U.S. citizen, I was very happy that Grove was TIME's choice. A virtual unknown to most people, this man is a clear symbol of success for every refugee who comes to the U.S. with a sincere desire to succeed through ingenuity and hard work. I admire his quick assimilation into American society by changing his name from the Hungarian Andras Grof to Andrew Grove, learning the language and contributing so much to our country and the world's technology. JAY M. CASTANO Washington...