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Last month the United States Supreme Court announced that in its upcoming term it will decide whether Americans who are terminally ill have a right to get help from their doctors and family members to end their lives. This announcement came just a week after Robert Dent, a 66 year-old cancer sufferer, became the first person to die under Australia's Northern Territory's controversial legislation--the first of its kind anywhere in the world--legalizing voluntary euthanasia. In the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, many euthanasia advocates have cheered the Northern Territory law. They hope for similar...
...have a couple reservations," Haynes says. "It doesn't guarantee money to first-years in any way--It leaves out one-quarter of the stu- dent body...
...have any sustained effect on anything." A rating of D.A.R.E. by Drug Strategies, a respected Washington research group, arrived at the same conclusion, as has police chief Norm Stamper of Seattle, which may drop the program. For all its popularity, says Stamper, D.A.R.E. "does not make much of a dent in drug use when the kids get older...
Like a gambler unwilling to cut his losses, Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin keeps doubling his bet. In 1989 Levin, then vice chairman, negotiated Time Inc.'s buyout of Warner Communications, an acquisition that enriched Warner's shareholders but not Time Inc.'s. Without making much of a dent in the $11 billion debt incurred by the deal, Levin kept rolling the dice. He sold pieces of the new company into complex partnerships that raised billions but tied up Time Warner's best assets, including Warner Bros. studios and HBO. And instead of paying down the mortgage, Levin went...
While the large phone bill won't cripple HMC, it will cause a significant dent in its $100,000 annual budget...