Word: outlaw
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What does it take to become an outlaw in China? Promote democracy, organize an illicit labor union--or spend an early-morning hour in a park moving your hands around the shape of an imaginary wheel...
MASTECTOMIES To judge from the rush to outlaw "drive-by" mastectomies, you'd think we faced a crisis. But outpatient mastectomies (as they're known off the Senate floor) aren't really a serious national problem. Roughly 15% of mastectomies are done on an outpatient basis today, up from 2% in 1991. Naturally there are some abuses. But as with everything from cataracts to cartilage, technical leaps often make outpatient surgery the safer, cheaper option. Johns Hopkins University, for example, one of the nation's top breast-surgery centers, does mostly outpatient work and reports fewer infections and happier patients...
...want to take our politics and our government back from the special interests," McCain told supporters Wednesday. He has proposed to outlaw soft money contributions to political parties, donations that now go unregulated...
...want to take our politics and our government back from the special interests," McCain told supporters Wednesday. He has proposed to outlaw soft money contributions to political parties, donations that now go unregulated...
...Americans no longer have confidence in a government ruled by special interests," he said Sunday. McCain is a co-sponsor of senate legislation that would outlaw so-called soft money contributions and impose other restrictions on political fundraising...