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...despair, had pointed a pistol at her chest and pulled the trigger. As she lay in the emergency room of a small hospital in California's Central Valley, her condition presented no great medical challenge; it was fairly straightforward compared with many of the messy youth shootings that confront E.R. doctors nowadays. Yet the woman's attempted suicide proved to be an epiphany for the young physician who attended her. It not only altered his life and career but also would affect countless other victims of gunshot wounds--and would have a major effect on the national debate over...
Lear was right. As the millennium approaches and baby boomers begin to confront their mortality, people have begun to seek out the comfort of religion in all aspects of their lives--even on TV. "Since the beginning of television, God has been a taboo word," says Father Ellwood ("Bud") Kieser, whose program Insight was one of the pioneers of religious TV in the '60s. "The industry was convinced that entertainment and religion were incompatible. Now there is dramatic evidence that this is not true...
TIME Washington correspondent Dean Fischer observes that Tung has yet to be tested on the toughest takeover issues, such as anticipated press scrutiny of Premier Li Peng or China's crucial 15th Communist Party Congress. "He hasn't had to confront a real choice on an issue that would help Beijing and hurt the people of Hong Kong," says Fischer...
...once today?s party ends, Athens will confront the Herculean challenge of financing the preparations for the Olympiad at the same time as the country undertakes austerity measures necessary to qualify for European Monetary Union. ?The organizers have adopted a Spartan $1.7 billion budget, saying they reject the over-commercialization of the Games,? says Carassava. ?But it remains to be seen whether they?ll manage to stay within that budget and not add to the burden of an already cash-strapped city.? Because as many previous host cities can testify, from a financial angle hosting the Games can be something...
...past half-century, billions of dollars have been spent by maritime nations to expand their domestic fishing fleets, subsidizing everything from fuel costs to the construction of factory trawlers. And until countries like Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and, yes, the U.S. are willing to confront this monster of their own making, attempts to control overfishing are likely to prove ineffectual. The problem, as Carl Safina, director of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, observes, is as politically intractable as it is intellectually simple: there is just too much fishing power chasing...