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...proposed changes, they seem to be limited to the following: A one-third reduction, from 93 to 60, of the Reagan-era B-1B bomber fleet (a proposal already causing a fuss in Congress because it spares only the planes based in South Dakota, Tom Daschle's home state, and Texas, George W. Bush's). A scrapping of 50 of the U.S.' nuclear-tipped MX "Peacekeeper" missiles as a possible first step toward a unilateral reduction in the nation's nuclear arsenal. And of course a $3 billion increase in spending on missile defense, to $8.3 billion. Total 2002 cost...
Contrast this widespread tolerance, if not acceptance, of the mass slaughter of embryos, even among right-to-lifers, with the huge fuss that antiabortion forces have stirred up over the relatively rare practice they insist on calling partial-birth abortions. This campaign emphasizes how recognizably human end-of-term fetuses are. The explicit or implicit argument is that these physical human qualities are at least part of what makes late-term abortions as morally objectionable as killing a postbirth human being. Either this argument is utterly disingenuous or the corollary must be that destruction of a newly conceived embryo...
...choice: pay up, get lost or get hurt. Huang was asked to pay for the "storage" of her sister's "smelly" body. The only thing unusual about her case is that she didn't oblige. Most Taiwanese are too grief-stricken or scared to put up a fuss...
NEWS MOVES ABC announced it will move 20/20 from Friday to Wednesday nights in the fall. Unhappy star Barbara Walters responded that she might bolt the show when her contract allows. Are schedule shifts worth all this fuss? In the world of ABC's rival news divas...
...company looking to be called "environmentally responsible" will have to try pretty hard. But with the party roles reversing almost instantly from their tax-cut-fight postures in the wake of the Jeffords news - Democrats promising to run their Senate magnanimously, and Republicans vowing to kick up a fuss - the biggest contribution the Green Mountain Man makes to the nation's capital this year may be to bring it to a halt...