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While Justice White's order will prolong the life of Autry and many other death-row inmates until the proportionality issue is decided, it does nothing to make future executions less likely. Says Texas Civil Liberties Union Executive Director John Duncan: "What we got was a short-term victory. I'm not at all optimistic about the long-term implications." Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox was not happy either. "It just seems to me that these considerations could have been made earlier," he said, "before you have a man strapped to the table with the saline solution going...
...concluded that liver transplantation in therapeutic for certain liver diseases." The panel deemed untherapeutic transplants for those with alcohol or drug related liver diseases; those patients make poor candidates for transplants, the panel determined. But for children like Jorie and Brett, the panel concluded that the operation "may prolong life...
...Before a healthy audience of some 2,000, he flailed clerical prudery, and plumped for the healthy life and for good clean sex ("The sexes were never made to be separated"). The white-maned publisher, clad in suit and shoes to match, did push-ups and headstands (calculated to prolong life from ten to 25 years), warned women: "Beauty must be associated with a good digestion...
...pointing out that Challenger accomplished 96% of its objectives and that there were far fewer "anomalies" than on any previous mission, only 21 by preliminary count. (There were 42 anomalies on the last shuttle flight, in April.) Two of these, however, played a part in the decision not to prolong the flight another day or so in hopes of homing in at Kennedy. They involved some brief, balky behavior by one of the shuttle's three auxiliary power units (APUs). The small engines provide the hydraulic pressure for operating the craft's landing gear, flap, braking rudder...
...Education Minister Alain Savary, that they say is threatening academic freedom by proposing to make universities more responsive to the needs of the economy. Medical students are opposing exams designed to determine who will be allowed to become specialists, while pharmacy students are refusing to accept official plans to prolong their studies by a year. All this is hardly the stuff of revolution, but it was heady enough to inspire many rightist students to lead last week's more violent demonstrations in Paris, where dozens were injured and more than 100 arrested. In Cannes, about 500 medical students disrupted...