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...best I know, this was the first time that any news account mentioned the procedure that other practitioners would later rename "intact dilation and extraction." It didn't make much of a stir at the time. But when the anti-abortion movement picked up on it in the mid-1990s and attached its own label - "partial birth abortion" - it became the rallying cry with which opponents began reversing many of the gains that the pro-choice movement had made over the previous two decades. This week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on the procedure, which is a move...
Wagamama—a Japanese word which means “willful, naughty child”—serves ramen and udon bowls as well as assorted stir-fried dishes at more than 70 restaurants around the globe, and plans to open shop in a former watch store next to Staples in mid-July, said Paul O’Farrell, the company’s chief operating officer...
...hues of emerald green to aquamarine blue is breathtaking. Each fiber is palpable in its smooth, glossy sturdiness, but we can also feel the soft tufts of gray and white along the feather’s bottom, aware that if we were to give the gentlest blow, they would stir. The soft shading and the way in which the light illuminates certain portions of the feather add to its real-as-life three-dimensionality. The magnifying glasses provided upon one’s entrance to the exhibit come in handy and, at the very least, add an element...
GRECO-TURKISH TENSIONS Turkey banned the site for three days after a Greek user allegedly posted a clip calling the founder of modern Turkey--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk--a homosexual. The stir caused a virtual video war to break out, as Greeks and Turks posted YouTube clips insulting one another...
...from the child dying of malaria to the village without clean water, conditions in Africa are an affront to every value we Europeans have ever seen fit to put on paper. We see in Somalia and Sudan what happens if more militant forces fill the void and stir dissent within what is, for the most part, a pro-Western and moderate Muslim population. (Nearly half of Africa's people are devotees of Islam.) So whether as a moral or strategic imperative, it's folly to let this fire rage...