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Ginsburg's nomination is likely to sail through the Senate despite concerns among liberals about the centrist position she has assumed on the Appeals Court (she has voted as often with the Republican appointees as with the Carter appointees). Women's groups are also worried over criticism the pro- choice Ginsburg leveled at the Roe v. Wade decision in a speech last March. She had contended that equal protection, rather than privacy, would have been better grounds and created less of a backlash. The strong reaction surprised her. Says Stanford law professor Barbara Babcock, who had dinner with her shortly...
...wrote Around the World in 80 Days more than a century ago. But it was not until last week that the challenge set down in 1873 by Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg -- to circle the globe in 80 days -- was conquered on the high seas. Aboard the 86-ft. sail-powered catamaran Commodore Explorer, French adventurer Bruno Peyron and his crew of four sailed triumphantly into France's Pouliguen harbor, 79 days and 6 hours after embarking from Brittany, smashing the existing circumnavigation record (109 days). It wasn't easy. En route, Commodore struck a pod of whales off Brazil...
...CALLED FRENCH ABORTION PILL, would probably sail through the persnickety approval process at the Food and Drug Administration -- if someone would put in an application. The drug has few side effects, is safer than surgical abortion, and is very effective for ending a pregnancy in the first trimester. Though RU 486 would be a big seller, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf has avoided seeking approval in the U.S. Reason: the militant antiabortion movement, which had supporters in Presidents Reagan and Bush...
...heavy-handed direction and the flimsy acting. The play is set in a house which pretends to be a ship--a ship waiting to run itself aground because no one is willing or able to navigate it. The lush blue lighting falls on a mast with a furled sail, a writing desk bearing a huge ship's wheel and a coil of rope...
...summer, millionaires come here to stay at their summer homes, sail their yachts around Lake Michigan, and play golf at the Grand Traverse Resort, with an award-winning course designed by Jack Nicklaus...