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FARRAKHAN MUST BE REVILED AND condemned, particularly by mainstream African-American and Muslim leaders, as the pariah that he is. It is not too late to stop this dangerous, deluded man. OREN M. SPIEGLER Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...decision, the first by a federal appeals court on assisted suicide, dramatically extends the right to die. "It advances it not by steps but by leaps," observes law professor Alan Meisel of the University of Pittsburgh. While previous decisions, most notably the Supreme Court's in the 1990 Cruzan case, have held that terminally ill patients can refuse medical treatment, the new ruling declares that they also have a right to seek assistance in dying from doctors--and pharmacists and family members...
...grant will reimburse Sullivan for an entire year's salary and permit him to engage in research during the 1996-1997 academic year, according to Jonathan N. Strom, program associate for the Luce Fellowship, that is administered from Pittsburgh, Penn...
...TERRIFYING MINUTES LAST month, 35 pilots were forced to navigate the airspace around Pittsburgh International Airport on a wing and a prayer. As two planes readied to take off from parallel runways and 33 planes cruised the surrounding air corridors, one of the airport's power systems shorted out. That tiny malfunction shut down all radarscopes, telephone lines, landing-instrument systems, radio connections and lights inside the air-control tower. "You have to visualize a radarscope showing two planes aimed at each other from 50 miles away," says Barry Krasner, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. "Your equipment...
Needlessly alarmist? As it happened, no planes came hurtling down, none collided in midair, no one was hurt. So Pittsburgh's mishap barely stirred notice. But such technological glitches are fast becoming routine in the nation's air-traffic-control system. By the National Transportation Safety Board's reckoning, anti- quated tracking equipment freezes up, shuts down or fizzles out all too often. "There is not one day that goes by without our losing radar or radio communication with an aircraft," says Joseph Fruscella, president of NATCA's eastern region. "It compromises safety on a regular basis...