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...prevail. "The legal tradition is very strong that you can't invade a child's body to help another," says medical ethicist Daniel Callahan. But he adds that Curran's moral case is far weaker than her legal one. "She is being asked to put her children at comparatively slight risk to save the life of their half brother." Sadly, as Jean-Pierre's condition worsens, the issue may soon be moot...
Saddam's aggression immediately cast the financial markets into turmoil. Some economists believe that even a slight surge in prices could push America's economy, already weakened by sluggish demand, the federal deficit and the S&L crisis, over the brink into recession. Perhaps more important, Saddam's move on the Middle East is an unexpected test of whether nations will pay the necessary price to assure peace and stability in the new global climate. Said a senior State Department official: "You just cannot allow this kind of behavior to go unchecked...
While Morse said he expected the grand jury to approve the arrest warrant this week, he added that there is still a slight chance that the warrant could be denied...
...about $9 billion, to $63 billion a year. And, unlike the Japanese, Americans tended to relax their efforts to conserve fuel once it became cheap again. At this point, economists do not expect a $3 oil hike to stunt economic growth seriously in the U.S., but even a slight shock is painful with the economy as weak as it is. Last week the government said economic growth during the second quarter slogged along at an anemic annual rate of 1.2%, prompting fears of an imminent recession...
...stress that American artists can write. Besides, elitism is an extremely dirty word in art circles these days, and whatever else she may be, Holzer is no elitist. Her work is so faultlessly, limpidly pedestrian as to make no demands of any sort on the viewer, beyond the slight eyestrain induced by the LEDs...