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Among local activists, there's concern that the "known troublemakers" and "infiltrators" that the law's sponsor, Councilman Richard Mariano, hopes to guard against will be confused with nonviolent street-theater performers and demonstrators who have taken a cautionary lesson from the Seattle and Washington protests. "Particularly in Seattle," says a labor organizer who attended both, "just being out on the street meant you were subject to chemical warfare...
...only cause us to wreck our cars and die in fiery balls of steel, they also may contribute to the development of brain tumors. After years of pooh-poohing the dangers (and happily pocketing checks from Nokia and Motorola), the government has finally gotten nervous enough to sponsor a study in which cell phone users' brains will be carefully monitored (although not while they're driving). Nothing is clear at this point; cell phones could be perfectly safe, or they could be the handheld equivalent of a brain microwave. With typical scientific caution, docs are advising nervous users to keep...
...Shriners sponsor 22 hospitals scattered throughout America that provide free burn and orthopedic treatment to children...
...show Dr. Laura. But as its Sept. 11 premier date nears, she has been the target of a campaign by gay activists who are pressuring Paramount Domestic Television to pull the plug because of what they contend are her slurs against homosexuals. Procter & Gamble has backed out as a sponsor. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Schlessinger, 53, an Orthodox Jew, discusses the controversy as well as her new book, Parenthood by Proxy (HarperCollins, $24), and what she sees as a moral decline. --By Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles...
...Court, which found in favor of Dale last August, came to exactly the opposite conclusion: The Scouts, they wrote, chartered by Congress in 1910, were a public organization whose reach extended far beyond individual squads into communities at large. Public institutions like churches and fire departments, they argued, routinely sponsor local troops, and according to New Jersey's anti-discrimination laws, the Scouts were required to accept Dale...