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...practical effect of the current decisions will be to strike down almost all the various constraints that states have placed on abortion rights. These include: rigid rules that minors obtain the consent of their parents, requirements that abortions after the first three months of pregnancy be performed in full-service hospitals, mandatory waiting periods after a woman has requested an abortion, and required counseling designed to discourage abortions. The court let stand a requirement that pathology reports be made following abortions and that two physicians be present at abortions conducted after the sixth month of a pregnancy. Both are relatively...
...deciding whether minors must have the permission of a parent before getting an abortion, the court trod a fine line, rejecting the standard used in the Akron ordinance but letting a Missouri statute stand. The distinction the court made is that parental-consent laws must be flexible enough to allow a minor to show a court that she is mature enough to make the decision on her own or that the abortion is in her best interests. Antiabortion forces are sure to press for legislation that meets this definition. Nine states currently have some form of parental-consent rule...
...scene from Damn Yankees, Kittle played Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo., hitting so many batting-practice homers that witnesses now insist the hits were all homers and five of them landed in the upper deck. He was packed off smartly to the minor leagues. The only question: Why had Kittle hit so poorly in the Dodger organization? The answer was that he had a broken neck. That is, without realizing it, he had two crushed vertebrae that pinched a nerve in his neck and numbed his right arm. On his own he underwent a spinal fusion in 1978. How Kittle...
...teaching hospital, "minor levels of contamination resulted when researchers were not properly checking their hands," Johnson notes. When such cases occur, Johnson's unit corrects the problem and delivers "a stirring lecture to impress on the person the hazards involved and to tell him to check his hands daily with a geiger counter...
Since then, however, the University's handling of radioactive materials has been revamped so successfully that in the most recent of the Nuclear Regulatory Committee's annual inspections, only minor violations such as improperly posted signs and food in the laboratories were reported...