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Speculation intensified overRussian President Boris Yeltsin's healthas questions were raised about the validity of an official photograph released last weekend. "I would insist that the photo was taken Friday," Yeltsin's press secretary sniffed to reporters, though the image bears umistakable similarities to a picture taken three months ago. Yeltsin appeared today on Russian Public Television to assert "the doctors say the recovery will be complete, without any consequences." Still, no independent reports or physician statements have been made since the ailing leader was hospitalized on July 11 withheart trouble...
...reputation. Outside the jury's presence, Arkin claimed that Tepperman, after admitting his wife to the Florida nursing home where she is still a resident, began living with Denese Galban, the nurse who once cared for her. Tepperman's lawyers do not dispute his involvement with Galban but insist that the relationship has the blessing of other family members...
...mildly--with students who consider the Yard no more than a giant and exceedingly well-decorated ashtray. I have lost all sympathy with those who insist, between smoke rings, that denying them their prerogative to drag constitutes an infringement on their fundamental rights. I will hear no more talmudic debates on whether the founders of this nation meant to ensure the ability of each and every last citizen to poison themselves as they...
...fetus, the trunk of the body has already been extracted from the birth canal. "The difference between the partial-birth abortion procedure and homicide is a mere three inches," said Charles Canady, the chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee that held hearings on the subject. Abortion-rights advocates insist the method should remain an option for women in the later stages of pregnancy, often because the fetus is deformed and has no chance of survival. Tammy Watts, 30, a California woman who underwent the procedure earlier this year, tearfully told the eight male Republicans who sit on Canady's subcommittee...
While groups like the Family Research Council insist that online child molesters represent a clear and present danger, there is no evidence that it is any greater than the thousand other threats children face every day. Ernie Allen, executive director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, acknowledges that there have been 10 or 12 "fairly high-profile cases" in the past year of children being seduced or lured online into situations where they are victimized. Kids who are not online are also at risk, however; more than 800,000 children are reported missing every year...