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...public about the dangers of preterm labor--and reminding physicians that a vacation, for instance, isn't a good-enough reason to schedule an early delivery. The assumption: if mothers knew the real risks of prematurity, they would be less likely to request induced labor or a C-section and would stick out the pregnancy to term...
...foremost packager of DVDs of foreign and specialty films. I can't think of another area of popular art, or commerce, where one brand is considered the standard of excellence, so far above its competitors, as Criterion. Consider: that it's the only label to have its own section in many video stores; that a copy of the out-of-print "white ring" edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo has been bid up, last time I checked, to $1,025 on eBay, and the auction doesn't end till midnight tomorrow; and that Criterion's new megabox set, Essential...
...central front in the Cold War, traumatized by Naziism and defeat, with plenty of families and loyalties divided between East and West, Germany was a target-rich environment for espionage. Wolf's foreign intelligence section of the Stasi (he claimed not to be involved in its pervasive organs of domestic repression, though critics doubted this) ran as many as 4,000 agents at a time. They penetrated the top ranks of business, government, parliament, the military and the intelligence services in West Germany and beyond. Wolf developed a particularly effective line in "Romeo" spies, handsome men who would befriend lonely...
...Indian governments are often at loggerheads with the Supreme Court. In 1971, parliament took the extreme measure of passing an amendment to create a new section of the constitution in which laws are beyond judicial review. Last week, the Court, which has long held that the move was invalid and has created a repository for tainted laws, heard arguments for and against the right of the state of Tamil Nadu to use the amendment to reserve government jobs for the underprivileged. The Court has yet to hand down its decision...
...bomber, spent time there before being transferred to Indiana, where he was executed in 2001. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is still at ADX, as is Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The common thread running through the crimes committed by these men accounts for the nickname given to the highest-security section of the prison: Bombers...