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...fresh produce, like those for apples and potatoes, draw few quibbles. But most of the promotions, nutritionists contend, are misleading. For instance, there is little evidence, as some sugar ads say, that the sweetener causes heart disease, cancer and diabetes. But "it is not 'perfectly safe,' " emphasizes Dr. William Connor of the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. "It's a major cause of tooth decay." Besides, he adds, sugar is hardly nutritious since it contains "no fiber, vitamins, minerals or proteins. You get only calories." Liebman takes issue with the National Dairy Board's campaign for its emphasis...
Great advances have been made in combating illiteracy in the Soviet Union, according to Walter D. Connor, a fellow at the Research Center and professor of Political Science and Sociology at Boston University...
...author of the decision, plus Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and John Paul Stevens. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White both dissented from Roe and would probably vote against it again. Antonin Scalia is thought to be against abortion. Bork would make four firmly against. But Sandra Day O'Connor is a question mark, and may become the swing vote in any majority. While O'Connor believes the court has gone too far in preventing states from regulating abortion, she may be reluctant to toss out Roe completely...
Also appointed was John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, who outspokenly defends his church's teaching that homosexual acts are sinful. Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, chairman of the Mayo Clinic's board of governors, was named to head the commission's inquiry. Mayberry has confessed that he is "no AIDS expert." Indeed, the makeup of the commission struck many as a recipe for inaction rather than progress. Fumed AIDS Activist Ann McFarren: "President Reagan's appointments are unconscionable." Reagan, however, defended his choices during a hospital tour and even held an AIDS-afflicted baby. "When it comes...
Blackmun is the third-oldest member of the court after Justices William j. Brennan, 81, and Thurgood Marshall, 79. The others are Byron R. White, 70; Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 62; John Paul Stevens, 67; Sandra Day O'Connor, 57 and Antonin Scalia...