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...flag-waving, freedom-loving American, I would gladly back the mission to Mars if the first person to go were President George W. Bush. I am quite certain that we won't be able to find Vice President Dick Cheney, or I would insist that he go, too. Colleen Stone Merced...
...protect them. Admittedly, this policy is not only about France’s eighteenth-century republican ideals, but also about the contemporary challenges to those ideals. While the law’s ultimate purpose is to safeguard secularism, its immediate result will be to force adolescent girls who insist on wearing a headscarf in school to give up free public education...
...fact that both the opposition and Aristide himself appear to wield significant support has prompted Haiti's Caribbean neighbors, and the U.S., to insist that the two sides find a political solution. But while they have for years criticized Aristide's refusal to accommodate his political opponents, outside observers are also critical of the opposition's insistence that no negotiations can be held before Aristide steps down. The resulting standoff has prevented any political solution, and the current wave of violence has made prospects for an accord even more remote...
Baker is convinced Paxil is what killed her daughter, and that's what she'll tell a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel meeting this week in Bethesda, Md. For years a small but vocal group of patients and doctors have insisted that certain antidepressants, including Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac and other medications known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), carry an unacceptable risk of antisocial behavior and suicide in kids who take them. Many clinicians and most pharmaceutical companies disagree. Major depression is a dangerous illness that in itself can lead to suicide, and they insist that the benefits...
...count as one of the five included in the Pixar-Disney deal. That left Lasseter and Jobs fuming. They were also annoyed by the length of the talks, during which weeks would go by with no response from Disney. A deal was "eminently doable, had it gone quickly," insists a Pixar insider. Jobs, knowing other studios would jump at a chance to get in business with Pixar (Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox are considered front runners), finally had enough. Folks on the Disney side insist that Eisner (already facing a call for his ouster as CEO) made a wise...