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...comfortably away in the middle of America's "flyover country," this conservative, image-conscious city (pop. 304,000) prefers to resolve its internal disputes -- which customarily involve school-board squabbles or debates over nude dancing in bars -- away from the glare of media attention. Thus there was some local discomfort in mid-July, when Operation Rescue, an aggressive antiabortion group based in Binghamton, N.Y., set up blockades outside three local clinics; one of them is among the few that perform late abortions. TV cameras soon followed, since the protests turned out to be anything but passive. As they have done...
...John Candy usually plays the man who came to dinner and stayed too long (and ate too much), but this time Bill Murray is the nerd determined to stick to his psychiatrist like Krazy Glue. Murray and Richard Dreyfuss are terrific in Frank Oz's pretty good comedy of discomfort...
Since silicone breast implants were introduced in the 1960s, many questions have been raised of their safety. Some recipients have complained of discomfort, recurrent infections and even disorders of the immune system. Another worry is that the implants might impede early detection of cancer. Partly in response to these complaints, the FDA ruled this month that manufacturers of all breast implants must demonstrate their safety by July or withdraw them from the market. The FDA's own analysis of the safety of polyurethane-coated implants is due out within a few weeks. "It is unfortunate," noted the FDA's Snider...
...disgraceful combination of cynicism and moral abdication. Several critics accused the President of reverting to his pre-August view of Saddam as a force for stability in the region, at least in the sense of being preferable to chaos. As to the moral argument, some in the Administration acknowledged discomfort. One official conceded, "It seems to me just like Hungary in 1956. Having called on people to overthrow their repressive leadership, we just sit back and watch them get slaughtered." Other commentators came up with a different analogy: the Red Army halting outside Warsaw in 1944 and doing nothing...
...rest of the world has beheld the gulf war and its outcome, the riveting seven-month video, with expressions of admiration, awe, wariness, discomfort and, in the case of many Arabs, a sense of rage and sorrow and betrayal. Nearly everyone is puzzled by the idea of a new world order...