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...rural areas, is it appropriate for a pharmacy to stop dispensing a legal medication? "Imagine, for instance," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "if for business reasons the company had decided not to dispense insulin" -- would Wal-Mart?s decision be ethically supportable? "This is a dangerous, slippery-slope situation," says Gorman. By the way, although the company will no longer be dispensing Preven, it will still be selling Viagra...
...Though the public at large may not be fully aware of it, ?many hunters and other gun owners have been at odds with the NRA for a long time,? says Goodgame. ?Whereas the NRA views any gun control as the beginning of a slippery slope that will lead to the taking of everyone?s guns by the government, many in the gun community don't agree, and support reasonable measures to keep guns away from children and criminals.? The Columbine tragedy has done much to bring this more flexible approach to the forefront, as concerned citizens on both sides...
Selective attendance is a slippery slope, and one absence makes the next one all the easier. I began to believe that my time, whether it was spent sleeping or eating (or at The Crimson), was more important than going to class. Some semesters I didn't even bother buying notebooks so I wouldn't get stuck with 60 blank sheets in an 80-page spiral-bound at the end of the term. But somehow I managed to get by, and even perform reasonably well, in my academic work...
With the life of its sponsoring school on the downward slope, the No. 8 Radcliffe heavyweight crew put that fact behind it Saturday to win one for the 'Cliffer...
...nation's people is an error of judgment the West keeps making. Milosevic, like Ho Chi Minh, sees the struggles of his countrymen only as the means to achieve an ethnically pure nation. The bait has been taken: NATO and the U.S. are headed down the slippery slope of ever increasing commitment in Yugoslavia. CHARLES GARNER Greensboro...