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...only civil rights groups that have Ashcroft in their sights. He has always been an ardent abortion foe, so abortion-rights groups view his nomination as "akin to the appointment of George Wallace to be Attorney General in the 1960s," says Rosemary Dempsey, Washington director of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. In 1998 Ashcroft sponsored a constitutional amendment to outlaw all abortions except those needed to save the life of the mother. Bush allows for exceptions in cases of rape or incest, but Ashcroft didn't. His proposal defined human life as beginning at fertilization, which women...
...computerized gun will be able to fire a series of 100-lb. shells in rapid succession at different trajectories so that they land in their target zone at the same time, a frightening prospect for any foe. It also will be faster on the battlefield, zipping along at up to 29 m.p.h., allowing it to keep up with the Army's speedy M-1 tanks. "In Desert Storm our tanks were outrunning our artillery," says General John Keane, the Army's No. 2 officer. "That's a no-no in terms of operational success." That assertion has become the Army...
Harvard does not do what Ivy League foe Penn does, which is to sacrifice its record (1-8) for chances to play nationally-ranked opponents like...
Rumsfeld's report proved contagious. By 1999 the CIA had changed its tune and was echoing him. But the agency had to bend the rules to do it: no longer did a foe have to be capable of reaching the 48 contiguous states to be deemed a threat to the U.S.; Alaska and Hawaii were added, putting the territory to be defended far closer to North Korea. The CIA began assuming enemy missiles could be fired without years of testing. Most critically, it stopped predicting what was "most likely" to happen in favor of what "could" happen...
...healthy immune system is the body’s best ally-an automated engine of biological warfare capable of destroying almost any microbial parasite it encounters. But, like all agents of destruction, when it spirals out of control it can be as deadly to friend as it is to foe...