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...January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced in the decision of two landmark cases, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, that in the first trimester, the abortion decision must be left to the pregnant woman and her doctor. Right now, a 5-4 vote upholds Roe v. Wade; just one more anti-choice Supreme Court Justice would be enough to overturn it. If, when, and as soon as this happens, passage of Question 1 will give the Massachusetts Legislature the power to outlaw abortion--even in the case of rape and incest victims and women with serious health...
...building complex will provide 43 units of housing in three structures: a newly-renovated turreted building cited as a historic landmark; a new five-story structure; and a carriage house in the back. Harvard will also build a 44-space parking lot on the site, said George Oommen, an official in Harvard's real estate planning department...
Other changes will be more complex. As the MMPI has come to be seen as a beloved landmark of American psychology, it has also come under frequent attack as dated and culture bound. Since empirical work on the test was done among pre-war, white, rural Minnesotans in their mid-30s, it does not account for newer values and is often a particularly unreliable test for blacks, women and adolescents. On the masculinity-femininity scale, a woman who says "true" to "I would like to be a soldier" or "I like mechanics magazines" risks being pigeonholed as abnormally masculine...
...game even more uncertain for many corporations and households. In the end, the panel was almost unanimous in predicting that the new law would soon be followed by more legislative tinkering. Concluded Guest Economist Henry Aaron, a tax specialist at Washington's Brookings Institution: "Though not a landmark shift, the tax reform will make the personal and corporation income taxes significantly fairer...
After repeated exclamations of "Bravo" had subsided, Peabody Professor of Music Lewis H. Lockwood began the discussion of the work by saying, "Anyone who knows Beethoven, knows this work represents part of a collective landmark in the history of string quartets...