Word: grounds
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...today, the Court upheld state laws in New York and Washington that make it a crime for doctors to administer lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who want to die. A November referendum in Oregon on a state law which allows doctor-assisted suicides will be one key testing ground for whether states will still have the freedom to make up their own minds on the issue. As a possible sign of what lies ahead, right-to-die campaign representatives say they are ready for a state-level fight. Asked whether Thursday's ruling would halt the activities...
...MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, conducted several sessions with Anderson, often using hypnosis, presumably to help him "recover" buried memories of the event. Anderson later told the Springfield News-Leader: "We all went up ...to it [a large silver disk]. There were three creatures, three bodies, lying on the ground underneath this thing in the shade. Two weren't moving, and the third one obviously was having trouble breathing, like when you have broken ribs. There was a fourth one [that]...apparently had been giving first aid to the others." Soon after, Anderson claimed, the military arrived, warned everyone...
...bishops lost moral high ground, however, when they tossed in the Dumpster the best chance to restrict late-term abortions since abortion was made legal. An astonishing thing happened during the debate over a bill to ban partial-birth abortions, which has no chance of actually becoming law, and wouldn't result in even one less abortion even if it did. Alarmed to learn of the many third-trimester abortions performed after six months, under milewide exceptions for vague reasons of mental health, Democratic Senator Thomas Daschle introduced a bill that would have banned all abortions in which the baby...
DIED. J. ANTHONY LUKAS, 64, Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist whose scrupulously detailed books explored America's great divides; by his own hand; in New York City. The individual was the starting point for his work, as in Common Ground, an examination of three families linked and separated by Boston's busing initiative. (See Eulogy below...
...national conscience. It worked too. Every subject he wrote about remains lodged in the mind through the personification that he found for it, from Linda Fitzpatrick, the suburban girl who became fatally involved with the late-1960s counterculture, to Rachel Twymon, the Job-like Boston-ghetto mother in Common Ground. They may be gone now, but they're still alive in Tony's work...