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...time before we really know what difference the marketing of mifepristone will make. Opponents vow to take to the streets in force, target the doctors who agree to prescribe it, gouge the conscience of anyone willing to wage chemical warfare on women and children. They call the drug baby poison and are enlisting allies in Congress to try to ban it, threatening boycotts of whoever makes it. As for the doctors faced with a decision, the greater the heat, the greater the fear. It's understandable that they could take a while to make up their mind--which means that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pill Arrives | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...railed that "do-it-yourself-abortion has no place in civilized society." Others stuck to simpler, more familiar catch-phrases, with Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) calling RU-486 "baby poison" and Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okh.) claiming that the FDA's decision was making available "a drug intended to kill people...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Rethinking the Abortion Pill | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

...kill at least 300 prairie dogs in one day. In spite of the pressure we put on the "dog towns," they continue to grow. The two ranchers with whom we have an understanding have asked that we step up our prairie-dog-killing efforts; otherwise they will have to poison the animals. RICHARD L. FRITZLER Laurel, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 28, 2000 | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

After reading these tales of the ruinous river diversions of Soviet planners and American water experts, you might conclude that ecological ignorance unites all nations. Misanthropes will hoot as governments simultaneously beggar their neighbors and poison their own wells. With a brutal accounting looming for our profligate misuse of earth's amniotic fluid, the author offers ways that countries can secure more supplies. The most likely scenario is an old standby: steal water from others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Water By Marq de Villiers | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

Hearst began his lifetime of accumulation about the time Adolph Ochs bought the moribund New York Times. Ochs and his heirs produced something of enduring value; Hearst and his family and his cronies produced a host of second-rate newspapers and did much to poison the politics of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Better or Hearst | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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