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Civil rights groups have also been planning a political assault. The upshot of last term's rulings, says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs, was that everyone "exists as a separate, individual, raceless, genderless person who is allowed to succeed or fail in terms designed for middle-class white men." Several U.S. Senators are drafting legislation to try to overturn some of those discrimination rulings...
...that manufactures the drug in the U.S., to test samples of Compound Q that Corti brought back from China. They wanted to make sure it was identical to the Compound Q used in the FDA-approved study. An attorney drew up guidelines that would keep the trials within federal law. Each patient made a videotaped statement, in the presence of an attorney and a witness, that he was entering the trial of his own free will. "What we wanted was a trial that was faster than the FDA, yet as safe," says Dr. Larry Waites of San Francisco...
...competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence. Only about half of all foster children return home; many of the rest are suspended in a legal limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan for his or her future within 18 months should be made available for adoption, an absentee parent can thwart such attempts by just minimal contact during those 18 months. Result: of the estimated 276,000 children in foster care...
...family members. All eventually required psychiatric care, costing up to $20,000 a month. Though the parents' case -- in which they are asking the state for further information about their children and assistance in caring for them -- has not yet gone to trial, the ! state has already enacted a law requiring agencies to provide full records to would-be adoptive parents...
...general of the Defense Department, in hearings held by Ohio Democrat John Glenn, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Brown said the practice was designed to permit the Pentagon to avoid competitive bidding in hiring consultants, since this is not required of the Library. It also skirted a law requiring Government agencies to report how much they spend on consulting fees...