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...likely have any easy time of it. Local news reports in Tskhinvali contend that Georgian special forces were burning Georgian villages to create the impression that Russian forces were allowing ethnic cleansing. "The Georgians destroyed everything," said Alan Khosayev, 28, as he watched workers clear a destroyed Georgian tank from an intersection in Tskhinvali. "Now we'll have to rebuild it. I don't know where the money will come from to rebuild South Ossetia. Probably from Russia." Certainly the Russian forces are broadly seen as saviors among the Ossetians: graffiti on the side of one building read, "Thank...
...Still, despite the clean record of the latest generation of sprinters, Jamaica has had to contend with a cloud of suspicion because its testing regimen is considered less than stringent. Jamaican health officials insist they're on a vigilant watch for performance enhancing drugs, and in recent years they have nabbed a few cheaters, including two who'd been training at U.S. universities. But while groups like the World Anti-Doping Agency have conceded there is little proof of drug-use among Jamaican sprinters, the country has refused to join the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization, which would...
...then choose not to implant all the embryos are surely violating the rights of those that are discarded or frozen. Some forms of contraception, such as IUDs and the morning-after pill, would presumably be illegal if they affect the ability of an egg to implant. Abortion opponents contend that the birth control pill itself, while designed to prevent ovulation so no egg is fertilized in the first place, may also have the effect of blocking implantation of any egg that sneaks through. Suddenly, a whole range of reproductive choices comes into question...
...biggest champions of home birthing is former talk-show host Ricki Lake, who produced the 2008 documentary The Business of Being Born. Lake and other activists contend that fear of litigation has led to more women in labor being tethered to monitors and forced under the knife. And pro--home birthers are pushing the notion that choosing where and how to give birth should be regarded as a civil rights issue. "Legislating against home birth is totally un-American and unfair," says Joan Bryson, who has worked as a midwife in New York City for 17 years. "We rank 42nd...
...dean of the Notre Dame Law School and a leader of the extreme-right John Birch Society. The program gave him a chance to indicate, among other things, dissatisfaction with the long-accepted notion that major guarantees of the Bill of Rights apply to actions by state governments. Opponents contend this shows disregard for the Constitution. To supporters, such positions represent the possibility of getting a new constitutional interpretation. If Manion is defeated, there could be a domino effect. Waiting in the wings are several other controversial possibilities, including Lino Graglia, a University of Texas law professor who has twice...