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...trade he learned at the Central Intelligence Agency. With his wife at the wheel, Howard propped up a dummy in the passenger seat and, on a tight turn, rolled out onto the roadway. Months later he surfaced in Moscow, the only full-fledged CIA operator to defect during the cold war. The fugitive double agent eventually showed up in Stockholm and last week was arrested by Swedish authorities...
Clozapine is not perfect either. In some patients it causes seizures. A few develop a life-threatening blood defect and must be immediately taken off the medication. It is also extremely expensive, costing $4,160 annually for the drug itself and as much as $9,000 more for doctor-monitored treatment. But for some it brings miracles. Of 20,000 American schizophrenics who did not respond well to Thorazine and were given clozapine, more than half have shown significant improvement: they become less withdrawn, and the nagging inner voices grow hushed. One patient in 10 responds to the drug...
...Court did. Presbyterian delegates in Milwaukee said secular law should still allow open access to the procedure. But in terms of personal morality, they rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging...
...message is very clear," said Chavez, who organized a boycott on table grapes which was the first industry-wide agricultural boycott in U.S. history. "We demand that they stop spraying DDT, cancer-causing, and birth-defect causing pesticides...
This national birth defect went uncorrected until the Civil Rights Act of 1866 established "that all persons born in the United States . . . are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." Passed during the most exhilarating days of Reconstruction, the act was greeted with officious optimism. "If there is anything by which the American people are troubled, and if there is anything with which the American statesman is perplexed and vexed, it is what to do with the negro," said one Yankee Senator. "Now, as a definition, this amendment settles...