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Where will the next battles be? Pro-life groups are pressing for a federal law that would make it a crime to take a minor across state lines for an abortion in a state that doesn't require parental notification. The House has passed the bill; the Senate has yet...
Over and over again, when I ask Wyoming officials about relative risk, they talk about relative worth. "Our citizens deserve the same kind of protection that they're afforded in other places in the country," says Lori Emmert, chief of police in Douglas (pop. 5,288), which has just received...
It could get worse. Families USA, a public-interest group critical of the law, will hold town-hall meetings with seniors in 22 cities over the next 11 weeks to point out flaws in the measure. HHS spokesman Bill Pierce accuses Democrats of trying to poison seniors' attitudes toward the...
In the 90s I wrote pieces for TIME on silent stars Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks (when their films appeared in handsome video collections), on Dorothy Dandridge (a new biography), on the comedy band leader Spike Jones (a double-CD set, with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a...
Meanwhile, the pace has quickened on the home front, where a mother's job has expanded to include managing a packed schedule of child-enhancement activities. In their new book The Mommy Myth, Susan Douglas, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, and Meredith Michaels, who teaches...