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Although that case will have no direct impact on Roe v. Wade, there are four disputes pending in the lower courts that pro-lifers hope the Supreme Court will eventually use to either overturn or further limit the landmark 1973 ruling. One of them is Louisiana's tough new antiabortion law, which was struck down by a federal district judge last week...
...lumbering C-141 transport jets that ferried troops across enemy lines. Their performance and that of all the 35,000 women who served in the gulf has generated support in Congress and public opinion for broadening the role of females in the military. Last week in a landmark move the Senate voted overwhelmingly to overturn a 43-year-old law that bars women from flying combat missions. Said Delaware Senator William Roth, who co-sponsored the amendment with Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts: "The facts show that women pilots have successively broken ground in just about every area of aviation...
...also unhealthy. Dieters who swing through cycles of weight loss and gain may actually be cutting their lives short, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In a study of 3,130 men and women, ages 30 to 62, participating in the landmark Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that so-called yo-yo dieters ran a 70% higher risk of dying from heart disease than did people whose weight stayed fairly steady, even if they were overweight...
Very little about the law was abstract to Marshall. He not only suffered its worst failure, the long reign of legal segregation, but he was also the architect of one of its greatest triumphs. He was the victorious attorney in Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark decision that prohibited racial segregation in public schools. As a Justice, Marshall sometimes helped to change American law. As a civil rights lawyer he changed America...
There was some irony in this clash of judicial views. Rehnquist was appointed to the court by Richard Nixon and promoted to Chief Justice by Ronald Reagan, both harsh critics of activist judges. As a civil rights attorney, Marshall won landmark rulings that overturned long-standing precedents upholding legal segregation. Now Rehnquist and his like-minded colleagues seemed bent on pursuing an aggressive conservative agenda, while Marshall was fighting to uphold the decisions of the past...