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...rather than meek turn-of-the-century waifs searching for love in all the wrong outfits. But for Blue, the narrator and centerpiece of Mark O'Donnell's unusually witty novel Getting Over Homer (Knopf; 193 pages; $21), there is at least hope beyond the sort that a good dose of Zoloft could offer...
...State law that prohibited physicians from helping their patients die. It's already legal for doctors to withhold or withdraw treatment at a patient's request. Now, as long as a patient is in the final stages of a terminal disease, mentally competent and able to take a lethal dose of medicine on his or her own, the state can't bar a doctor from prescribing that dose...
...other sources to argue that the Federal Government represents an illegal usurpation of the common-law power of localities. The ideas are now spread by groups under a variety of names--Freemen, We the People, People for Constitutional Courts, even the Civil Rights Task Force--sometimes with a strong dose of white separatism, anti-Semitism and the usual paranoia about a worldwide conspiracy of bankers. In January Lutheran pastor Helen Young met with Freemen leaders at the Clark farm. "It was hard for me to dialogue with them," she says. "It became a matter of them looking at the Scriptures...
...altitudes of about 10,000 ft. and higher, mountain climbers run the risk of developing a serious condition in which their lungs fill with water. Now scientists in Switzerland report that inhaling an extremely diluted dose of nitric oxide gas--about the amount present in Los Angeles smog--can help treat the problem...
...fuel-pool drainage accident assumes that at most one-third of a core is in the pool, even though plants across the country routinely move full cores into pools crowded with older cores. If the NRC based its calculations on that scenario, says Lochbaum, "it would exceed the radiation-dose limits set by Congress and scare people to death. But the NRC won't do it." The NRC's Taylor told TIME that the agency analyzes dose rates at the time a plant opens--when its pool is empty. The law, he said, "does not contain a provision for rereview...