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Clinton focused his agenda as he has not often done at home. Agreements to expand trade and to extend more generous aid to Russia, he told his subordinates, took precedence over everything else. He harped on the subject of employment, going so far as to call for a "jobs summit" at the meeting. Expanding trade, he insisted, was one way out of the stagnant employment that bedevils all members of the G-7 (for Group of Seven nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan...
...what seems like forever to come up with a national health-care plan. And when they do, Congress may stall some more and change the plan beyond recognition. So states, companies and even the medical profession are pushing ahead with their own plans to cut costs, streamline care and extend coverage to more of the uninsured. "If anyone believes we are waiting for the Administration's final package or for congressional action on that package, he's wrong," says Roger Tracy, director of community-based programs at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. "Reform is alive and well...
...behalf of the board of directors of the Cambridge Alliance, and as president of Cambridge's new private non-profit educational civic organization, I would like to take this opportunity to extend a personal invitation to all of Cambridge to join with us to improve and sustain the quality of life in Cambridge...
...Supreme Court lowered -- a bit -- the barrier between religion and public schools. A unanimous court, with White writing, said schools that permit outside organizations to meet on their property after class hours must extend the same right to religious groups. In a case involving the Afro-Cuban religion called Santeria, they also ruled that religious groups have a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services. The Justices also unanimously backed the right of states to impose harsher sentences on assailants who commit hate crimes in which they choose their victims based on race, religion or other biases. "A physical...
...uses of RU 486 could extend well beyond dealing with some of the 37 million abortions carried out around the globe each year. European studies have shown that it is an effective morning-after pill, inducing less nausea or vomiting than other drugs used for the same purpose. There are also indications that RU 486 can combat endometriosis, a leading cause of female infertility, and fibroid tumors, a condition that often necessitates hysterectomy. Thus the same drug that can help some women end unwanted pregnancies may enable others to bear children. Assorted studies have found that RU 486 may also...