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...ruling is a serious blow to the pro-choice groups who mobilized against the site, railing against what they called flagrant invitations to violence against doctors, clinic workers and their families. A mirror version of the original site, which features graphic photographs of dismembered fetuses, is decorated by grisly lines of text dripping with blood, and exhorts visitors to supply the site's manager with any "evidence" of "abortionists' crimes...
...years ago, district court judge Robert Jones asked the jury to consider the rash of violence against clinic doctors and workers, including, most recently, New York OB-GYN Dr. Barnett Slepian, who was gunned down in his kitchen by an anti-abortion activist. (James Kopp, the man suspected of killing Slepian, was arrested by the FBI Thursday after two years on the Bureau's most-wanted list.) Soon after Dr. Slepian was murdered, the "Nuremberg" site put a dark line through his name...
...This week, the Appeals Court judges took a different view, arguing that there is no direct causal link between the site's plea for "evidence" and the deaths of several doctors and clinic workers listed on the site, and cited the distinction between a direct threat and secondhand encouragement. If the site "merely encouraged unrelated terrorists," Judge Alex Kozinski wrote, "then their words are protected by the First Amendment...
...some of the 30,000 to 50,000 hair cells in the inner ear, which are responsible for transmitting sound information to the auditory nerve, have been injured or destroyed, leaving the ear "like a piano with missing keys," according to David Fabry, director of audiology at the Mayo Clinic and president of the American Academy of Audiology...
Until then, doctors are likely to proceed fairly cautiously. They want to make sure they're helping their MCI patients without unnecessarily stigmatizing them with the Alzheimer's label. Still, there's hope, says Dr. Ronald Petersen, director of the Alzheimer's Researcher Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "These people are really quite functional." For if MCI is indeed the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease, and if it's possible to slow its progression, patients might be able to delay the onset of full-blown Alzheimer's and preserve a fairly decent quality of life...