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...intact dilation and extraction." To pro-choice groups, the new laws in states from Rhode Island to Montana represent an alarming challenge to the fundamental principles set down by the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. "The antiabortion movement has in one sense already won," says Janet Benshoof, president of the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, which is challenging nine of the new laws in court...
...dance diva Janet Jackson, like a really successful software program, has been steadily issuing updated versions of herself over the years. Janet 1.0 was tentative, but Janet 2.0 asserted her identity on Control (1986). On Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) Janet 3.0 began to address social issues (her solutions: dancing and uniforms). Finally, on janet., her 1993 CD, Janet 4.0 adopted a bohemian, just-kicking-it-at-a-Brooklyn-house-party cool, posing on the back cover with jeans unzipped and midriff bare, her body ready for anything...
...latest Janet, on her new album The Velvet Rope, is omnivorous, sexually and musically: folk, hip-hop, man, woman, it's all in play. Her basic sound, however, is the same--her small, soft voice surrounded by imposing, muscular dance beats. The album has more than a few striking moments, from Vanessa-Mae's rubbed-raw violin solo on the title track to the brutal frankness of What About, in which a woman rejects a marriage proposal from an abusive boyfriend. Jackson occasionally relies too heavily on others--Got 'Til It's Gone draws smartly on Joni Mitchell...
Charging Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Janet Reno asks that the company be held in contempt and fined $1 Million a day (TIME Daily...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...