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...long insisted that what he wants for his wife Terri is a dignified death. But a flurry of legislative maneuvering late last week showed how the predicament of one severely brain-damaged Florida woman--who has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state since 1990--is in danger of getting lost in the clash of political agendas. In an effort to head off the scheduled removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, the House of Representatives, led by Republican Tom DeLay, took the extraordinary step on Friday of issuing a subpoena for Schiavo herself, along with her doctors...
...bottles. "We call them invisible bombs because they are very, very difficult to detect," says one senior government official familiar with the case. "And at that size we can only think of one purpose: airplanes." The bombs, some of which already had detonators attached, represent a new level of danger for Asia's aviation industry...
...will not attempt to dictate how other nations organize their economics and politics, but will welcome into the international system those who have their own sense of tradition, history, and the natural order of the world, even if this is very different from that of the U.S. The danger is that Americans will be mental prisoners of their benign intentions, convinced of the innate superiority of their own institutions and beliefs, and unable to see that their own dominance is as likely to breed resentment as admiration. It is time that the U.S. became more aware of this risk...
...service workers without social benefits arriving from Central and Eastern Europe, undercutting prices and destroying local jobs. Some government heads agree. Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker, who currently holds the E.U.'s rotating presidency, said last week that "we must remove any proposals that open us up to the danger of social dumping, tax dumping or regulatory dumping...
...nothing but the truth. Instead, he told nothing. After a moving opening statement in which he cried while ruing the deaths of young steroid users, the cameras clicked in wild anticipation. Was Big Mac ready to admit that he too had supersized himself with steroids? Would he acknowledge the danger and offer a lesson to the millions of teenagers who still look up to him? Would he take up the cause of Denise and Raymond Garibaldi and Donald Hooton, who testified earlier that steroids killed their young sons...