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...Although 66 violent incidents occurred at U.S. abortion clinics this year, Terry, who delivered his diatribe by fax, shrugged off suggestions his comments could be incendiary. But TIME's David Van Biema cautions: "The threat probably won't come from Terry himself, but from fringe elements who could well interpret these unhelpful Nazi metaphors as an invitation to drastic measures...
...much of that attention is proving hostile. Local and state officials are often at a loss to interpret a law that demands "reasonable accommodation" of the disabled yet allows that compliance need not incur "undue hardship." At a time when voters are feverishly opposed to more regulations and higher taxes, the country's 85,000 state and local government agencies bump up against public resistance when they want to spend money to benefit a relative few. "That's taking time and resources that could have been used in a lot of other ways," says Wally Douthwaite, city manager...
Dole: I think we all change. It seems to me that when you become the Speaker of the House, or even the leader of the Senate, you need to weigh what you say a little more carefully, because somebody is going to interpret it-properly or improperly-and it sometimes has meaning. I think we all have got to be responsible...
...state of the world and of how we might do better. A new sense of compassion and unflinching rejection of the trappings of a decadent mass junk culture are thing we should be preaching and pursuing. Educated people learn from their misfortunes and mistakes; they read and interpret the world around them and try actively to change it for the better...
...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...