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Whatever one thinks about the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, there can be little doubt of its judicial aggressiveness. At the time, the abortion issue, although hardly unsung, had been debated fully in only a few state legislatures. By grabbing the case, locating a previously unspecified right to abortion in the Constitution and telling the states to respect that right, the Justices effectively defined the issue and pre-empted a legislative solution. The result: the court was stuck particularizing its position for the next 20 years...
...story of a ragbag of bizarre, damaged, retired superheroes reunited by the murder of a former teammate, Watchmen is told in fugal, over-lapping plotlines and gorgeous panels rich with cinematic leitmotifs. A work of ruthless psychological realism, it's a landmark in the graphic novel medium. It would be a masterpiece in any. --By Lev Grossman...
When the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) turned 80 this past August, it celebrated the occasion with a landmark climbing expedition in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Now, the group hopes to carve its niche in posterity with some tributes of mountainous proportions. The club, which was the first American group to explore the Central Borkoldoy range of these mountains, is allowed to name all nine peaks they mounted, in accordance with mountaineering tradition. The names they have tentatively assigned range from Peak Harvard to Peak Adventure—with one peak bearing a title that holds sentimental value...
...mark, 71 did not receive the drug. Of these patients, 41 were classified as “too good to treat,” while the others had undergone recent surgery or were on blood thinners. The drug tPA is not without its risks, however, Smith noted, citing a landmark study in 1995 which suggested a 6 percent risk in brain hemorrhaging for tPA patients. “Because tPA is a ‘clot-busting’ drug, the main complication is that it can cause bleeding for certain at-risk patients. Especially for these patients, doctors...
Along its pathways, merchants freely exchanged both goods and ideas. In terms of its importance to world culture, Folger Fund Professor of History and East Asian historian Andrew D. Gordon ’74 says the development of the Silk Road was a critical cultural landmark: “The Crusades, the Black Plague, the Renaissance—it ranks right up there with all of them...