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This week, Operation Rescue baptized yet another new member. Through this latest conversion, the sometimes violent pro-life organization whose mission is the "rescue" of unborn fetuses managed yet another publicity coup. This time it was not brought on by gunfire on an abortion clinic, but instead by the identity of the woman who joined their ranks...
Other teaching hospitals are following similar strategies, with some variations. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, saw the managed-care wave coming and hatched a particularly wide array of responses. For one thing, it standardized purchasing of such supplies as knee braces and rods for broken bones. It orders in bulk and demands discounts. Meanwhile, Mayo has a thriving side business in newsletters, books and cd-roms...
...expand them. Primitive water and sewer lines regularly rupture. Twisted, aging roads are dangerous and confusing. The visitors' center is cramped, overrun and hard to find. Its exhibits are outdated and the roof leaks. Employee housing is so critically short that some government workers are living in the medical clinic and an old laundry. Others are billeted in rickety trailers that were hauled to the site from nearby Glen Canyon Dam, where they housed the dam's construction crew 33 years...
...setback for anti-abortion activists, the Supreme Court refused to hear the first of several challenges to the year-oldFreedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.The law makes it a federal crime to block access to abortion clinics or intimidate either clients or clinic staff members. Without comment, the Justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling against Joyce Woodall, an anti-abortion demonstrator who was arrested after kneeling against a Falls Church, Va., clinic door and praying. Woodall's appeal said the law was unconstitutional in limiting anti-abortion speech or expression, but Justice Department lawyers said...
Nationally, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has asimilar plant, although it is smaller thanHarvard...