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Beijing is skittish enough these days to consider any concession to the West as a step onto a slippery slope. For his part, Bush is fighting efforts in Congress to eliminate China's most favored nation trading status because of its human rights abuses. To fend it off, he needs evidence that the Chinese are ready to improve their behavior at home and abroad...
PROPONENTS of Initiative 119 have dismissed these and other arguments against legalizing euthanasia as unrealistic "slippery slope" arguments. Hemlock Society spokespeople have said over and over again that their law attempts to increase the options for the individual, not to make it possible for doctors to murder their patients with impunity...
Clearly, something is wrong with allowing doctors to perform "aid-in-dying." At least in the Dutch case, the quasi-legalization of euthanasia has led to a slippery slope. There are few reasons to believe that American doctors would be less tempted to play God with their patients than the Dutch...
...kids into their tennis shoes, backed the station wagon and the Mercedes sedan out of the garage, put the kids in the cars and left the engines running. At 2 p.m. the fire crested the hill above the Harrison house with a terrible roar and danced down the slope. Joy belatedly began trying to collect valuables. She found the savings bonds and the photo albums. "I got an armful of suits and two pair of shoes," recalls John. The kids, watching from the station wagon, began screaming...
...Colorado River begins high above the tree lines, amid the glaciers and snowpack on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Icy rivulets collect and drip into streams, trickling and then plunging downward. In the peaks of eastern Utah, where the Green River hurtles south from Wyoming to meet the Upper Colorado, the water starts getting serious. It wants to reach sea level -- in this case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece...