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...that the theories Baigent and Leigh are trying so hard to protect are ideas, not expression. So Brown - and anyone else - is free to use them. Upholding last year's ruling, the appeals court said that the law can't be used to "monopolize historical research or knowledge and prevent the legitimate use of historical and biographical material," and that the theories Baigent and Leigh claim Brown pilfered from their book "lay on the wrong side of the line between ideas and expression" to warrant protection...
...made its name by helping people plan parenthood, promoting access to contraception and providing general reproductive health care. Fewer than one in ten clients comes for abortions, and less than 30% of 860 Planned Parenthood clinics in the U.S. actually provide abortions. In fact Planned Parenthood argues that it prevents nearly 300,000 abortions a year by helping prevent unintended pregnancies. But the fireworks of the culture wars have meant that the organization has become the face of abortion in America, and that brings a literal as well as political cost...
...Edwardses have acknowledged that Elizabeth's cancer is not curable. The best that can be hoped for is to shrink whatever tumors are present and try to prevent more from cropping up. Most patients do respond to drugs for a while, and then relapse. The standard care is to stay on a drug as long as it's working and switch when it stops - nearly all drugs eventually stop working - until doctors run out of drugs...
...directive to prevent any harm from coming to her subjects that tripped up Stern in the Netherlands...
...suspicion of match-fixing fuels some of the speculation surrounding Woolmer's murder: that the former England player was killed to prevent him blowing the lid on the game's continuing cancer. Pakistan has certainly been linked to match-fixing scandals in the past. Outspoken Pakistani batsman Qasim Omar has long maintained that he was bribed to deliberately get himself out during the 1983-84 Pakistan-Australia series. A decade later, three Australian players publicly alleged that Salim Malik of Pakistan had offered them money to lose a match. Malik denied the allegation. Then, in 2000, police in the Indian...