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...practice of medically assisting suicides, Dr. Jack Kevorkian and two helpers assembled the machinery that allowed Miller to do himself in. But this ninth "medicide" since 1990 offered some new twists: Miller was the first male to die and the first outside Kevorkian's former home territory of Oakland County. The message, said his attorney, was that Kevorkian would not only defy the impending Michigan ban but continue to expand his practice throughout the state to include anyone, anywhere, anytime...
This time, however, Kevorkian (ghoulishly nicknamed Jack the Reaper) faced no immediate legal action, since the prosecutor in Oakland County, where all the deaths have taken place, declined to press homicide charges. Prosecutor Richard Thompson cited the fact that his past efforts have all been overturned by state courts. In the meantime, Kevorkian is free to pursue his suicide- assistance practice, unless the state legislature takes action. That seemed more likely last week, when Michigan lawmakers reacted to the latest death by finally moving toward passage of a bill that could criminalize all assisted suicides by next spring...
...this regard, Jose Canseco may have the most telling quote of the season. In explaining why he didn't mind his surprising late-season trade to the Texas Rangers, Canseco lamented: "In Oakland, it was always win, win, win--and you get fed up with...
...Braves -- last year's Cinderella, this year's proud prince -- are spending the World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays. Canada's best team shook off its decade-long notoriety as a talented squad with no guts by playing a six-game swan song for the once dynastic Oakland A's. Now the Jays and Braves do battle to decide whether the last song of the baseball year will be O Canada! or Georgia on My Mind...
...involves not just one but an array of ailments resulting from tugging, pounding and straining crucial tissues in the upper body. It usually begins innocuously. "People think they've had a particularly hard day or that they're getting old," says Frank Fernandez, an Oakland, California, attorney who has filed suit against several computer manufacturers on behalf of RSI sufferers...