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Idaho's politicians were not the only ones to tussle with abortion last week. The U.S. territory of Guam outlawed all abortions except to save the life of the mother, but a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure. In Maryland, after an eight-day filibuster, the state Senate passed two bills -- one allowing abortion, the other severely restricting it -- and encouraged the state's voters to decide in a referendum next fall. "That gives politicians license to say they're pro-choice to one person and antiabortion to the next," charges delegate Patricia Sher. It would have been a politician...
Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio recently proposed an alternative: returning the city to Maryland, which donated the land 199 years ago. That idea got scant attention until Governor William Donald Schaefer surprised everyone by saying he would accept "retrocession." But black leaders such as Jesse Jackson have denounced the proposal, Schaefer has backed away, and congressional insiders say forget it. Thus, Washington is likely to remain what statehooders call the last colony for the foreseeable future...
...after city, town after town, children are slipping into the work force to make up for a growing labor shortage, while the laws designed to protect them are widely flouted. In New York, it is the garment industry; in California, the fast-food restaurants; in Iowa, the farms; in Maryland, the door-to-door candy sellers. Violations of child-labor laws shot up from 8,877 in 1984 to a record 22,508 last year, as ever younger children worked ever longer hours at jobs no one else would take for the pay. Though the majority of underage workers...
...science. When Cole's wife Jackie suffered a massive brain hemorrhage four years ago, the blood vessels in her brain ruptured, and she fell into a coma. "The vast majority of patients who have this kind of stroke die within a few hours," Dr. Tad Pula, the head of Maryland General Hospital's division of neurology, told Cole. But Jackie did not die right away; after several crises she stabilized into a vegetative state, which doctors said could last indefinitely. After talking with his children, Cole went to court to remove the respirator. But Baltimore Circuit Court Judge John Carroll...
...meet his deadline, Afanador had to schedule eight photographic sessions from California to Maryland in seven days. Nonetheless, he arranged to talk quietly with the families of each subject, usually the night before he began photographing. "I wanted them to understand," says Afanador, "that I intended to portray a family and the love it felt, not a medical problem." Returning to New York City after several nights with very little sleep, he still was not finished. He headed straight to his darkroom, where he used old photographic paper and a special chemical process to provide the pictures' yellowish cast...