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There is only one response to such fear-mongering: relax. The landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision, which has allowed almost unrestricted abortion since its inception, may well be reversed. President Bush will likely nominate two or more justices in his upcoming term, and the probable departure of the moderate Sandra Day O’Connor and the liberal John Paul Stevens could completely reshape the Court. But this will not lead to the left’s feared instant reversal of abortion rights. It may make little difference. And importantly, a reversal would lessen the bitterness and counterproductive nature...
...firms that pulled out of the military-ruled state after being pressured by human-rights groups. Now, however, doing business with regimes like the one in Rangoon may cost American companies cash as well as goodwill. Last week, California-based oil giant Unocal chose to settle a landmark lawsuit launched by 14 Burmese refugees who alleged that the company was responsible for human-rights abuses by Burmese soldiers working on the $1.2 billion Yadana gas pipeline?a project developed by Unocal, the Burmese government and French oil company Total SA. The terms of the settlement are confidential...
There was good news as well. A landmark study at Columbia University showed that women taking aspirin at least four times a week for three months cut their risk of developing breast cancer 30%. Doctors warn, however, that it's too early to recommend avoiding carbs and antibiotics or turning to aspirin to treat breast cancer. Though all three studies revealed potentially useful associations, none of them can show a direct connection...
DIED. ANCEL KEYS, 100, whose landmark Seven Countries study of 12,000 healthy men across the globe cemented the link between saturated fat and heart disease; in Minneapolis. Known as Mr. Cholesterol, Keys popularized his findings in the 1959 best seller Eat Well and Stay Well and landed on the cover of TIME. Earlier he invented the K-ration, named for him, a nutritious yet tiny meal World War II soldiers carried into combat...
Raymond Brown was one who did not. Brown, author of the landmark work The Birth of the Messiah, dean of historical Jesus scholars until his death in 1998 and a Sulpician priest, observed that the idea of divine conception in the womb appeared to be part of a theological progression. The very first Christians thought that Jesus had become God's Son at his Resurrection; Mark, the first Gospel written, seemed to locate the moment at his baptism in the Jordan; and it is only by the time that Matthew and Luke were writing that believers had dated his Sonship...