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...which ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to equal rights. The state senate is expected to pass the bill easily, and Governor Howard Dean has vowed to sign it. That doesn't mean there hasn't been a fire storm of protest. Critics say such a law would destroy the foundation of marriage. And they're poised to challenge it in court. But gays are celebrating what they call a symbolic and practical victory...
...healthy? "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy," H.G. Wells suggested long before the Net. "Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy, and unreliable--but teach him, inoculate him with chess." A Chilean friend quit the club and deleted the whole program from his computer after clicking on a whimsical feature that calculated "percentage of your life wasted on chess." (I paraphrase.) He found the number disturbingly high...
...Salmonella bacteria that normally attack the intestines and cause dysentery. Salmonella, it happens, also happily infect all kinds of tumors, including colon cancer. By loading genetically crippled salmonella with one of the body's own cancer-fighting chemicals (a molecule called tumor necrosis factor), researchers at Vion hope to destroy or at least shrink a wide variety of cancers. Safety studies in humans are planned for later this year...
...words of John Shelby Spong could be met with skepticism or even hostility (Op-Ed, Mar. 6). But nothing could surprise me more than J. Stuart Buck's opinion that Spong is "singularly unqualified" to deliver the W. B. Noble lectures, or that the Spong is out to destroy the heritage of the Episcopal Church. That is, unless by "destroying heritage," Buck means opening the Church's ranks to any person who feels the call to service, male or female, gay or straight. Or perhaps he means making the Church a place of discussion open to those...
...where the narcotraffickers produce illicit drugs. Armed and armored, the helicopters can protect unarmed crop-dusting planes as they spray lethal herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs and airstrips and then deliver Colombian police and military forces to destroy them. This drug smothering from the air has a credible track record in the region, cutting narcotics production in both Bolivia and Peru over the past decade...