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...while on the surface, the vote seems like a no-brainer (not to mention a slap in Al Gore's face), there is a great deal about the bill that makes many abortion rights advocates very nervous. The logic of the bill (an innocent life should not end because someone else commits a crime) leads neatly into basic pro-life theory: If we suspend a pregnant woman's execution out of respect for the "innocence" of the fetus, how can we justify any abortion? Because after all, one fetus is as "innocent" as the next...
...characterize the Israeli withdrawal as involving "courage" for the Israelis was a slap in the face for Lebanon [WORLD, June 5]. Had the Lebanese resistance not been so effective, the 18-year Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon would have dragged on forever. My advice to Israel is to return the rest of the occupied lands to the Syrians and Palestinians now, before it finds itself doing so in a similarly "courageous" manner later on. MARK O. SOLOMON Houston...
WILLIAM NEUKOM Hey, nice job on the Microsoft defense. Hint: slap yer client, and try to resolve on appeal...
...weather. Bind a hundred of these digital pages between covers, and you have a book that can change its content yet still be read like a book. You turn the pages (a way to navigate through text that is hard to improve), and when you are finished, you slap it into a holster to fill it with another text. The ordinary reader might have a collection of several dozen leatherbound and different-size book containers, ones that mold themselves to the reader's hands and habits over many readings. "This story is formatted to be viewed on an oversize...
...members of PSLM, who launched a campaign almost 18 months ago to agitate for a living wage of at least $10.25 per hour--originally $10-- for all Harvard employees, the University's failure to act or even negotiate came as a slap in the face...