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Back when I got it, polio was an epidemic in New York City. Without warning, I went from being an active New York kid who loved baseball and being a cub scout to an invalid, confined to bed and isolated. The illness started with a high fever, which was painful and scary and lasted two days. After that, I was paralyzed. I wasn't frightened, though. But I was lonely. I had been quarantined from other kids, except for my older brother and younger sister...
...political parties. - By Bruce Crumley Phantom Victory U.K. Environmental group Friends of the Earth won its campaign to stop a British company from breaking up a fleet of toxic U.S. Navy "ghost ships" after a high court judge ruled that the license awarded to dismantler Able UK was invalid. The fate of four ships already in the U.K. was unclear. Blow to ETA FRANCE Police arrested four suspected members of the Spanish Basque separatist group ETA, including its alleged military leader and chief of logistics, in the southwestern village of Lons. All four were placed under formal investigation on suspicion...
...denied any nationwide deployment, to whom did the President order it? At no point was a nationwide deployment of the army ordered. You stated that after President Kumaratunga's spokesman said the cease-fire with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) "will stand," the President "declared the cessation 'invalid.'" What you did not mention is that (as the President explained to your correspondent) any agreement signed with regard to the defense of the nation, including the present cease-fire, has to be signed by the head of state. As the cease-fire has been signed only by Prime Minister...
...advantage of the court ruling would have defied an order from the state public health department prohibiting cities from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples until after the six-month stay period. Romney told the Associated Press last week that any licenses issued during this time would be considered invalid...
...presidential ballot was out-polled by an ultranationalist. The 18-party Democratic Opposition of Serbia, which came to power in 2000 after ousting strongman Slobodan Milosevic, has been riven by infighting and two weeks ago called early elections after losing its parliamentary majority. The presidential ballot was ruled invalid due to low voter turnout - for the third time in just over a year. Freedom, for Some ZIMBABWE A Harare court released 52 activists two days after their arrests for taking part in demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe. A call by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions...