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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a major ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment that bans laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination. The 6-3 ruling Monday is the biggest legal victory to date for gay-rights activists, and signals a major shift by the court since its last major gay-rights ruling. In 1986, the Court was blatantly contemptuous of a constitutional challenge to Georgia's sodomy law. "This is a huge decision," TIME correspondent Wendy Cole reports, adding that gay-rights groups had been braced for a defeat. "It will be very interesting to see how local municipalities...
...well as human remains, but it has not yielded an exact answer to what caused the crash. Investigators, wading through thick heat, razor-sharp saw grass, toxic jet fuel and the almost cartoonish threat of alligators, first speculated that the 27-year-old DC-9 was struck down by some combination of age and poor maintenance. Now they are focusing on a new culprit: the 50 to 60 oxygen generators believed to have been stowed--perhaps mistakenly--in the forward cargo hold of the aircraft. The generators, which are used on some planes to provide oxygen if the cabin undergoes...
Fishing tops the list of most dangerous jobs. Predictably, most are killed in boating mishaps. Similarly, most loggers are killed when struck by trees. But most surprising is taxi drivers. Their greatest job risk: murder...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a major ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment that bans laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination. The 6-3 ruling Monday is the biggest legal victory to date for gay-rights activists, and signals a major shift by the court since its last major gay-rights ruling. In 1986, the Court was blatantly contemptuous of a constitutional challenge to Georgia's sodomy law. "This is a huge decision," TIME correspondent Wendy Cole reports, adding that gay-rights groups had been braced for a defeat. "It will be very interesting to see how local municipalities...
...surprised if right-wing groups try to find a different way to attack homosexuals," Cole says. "This will not signal an end to legislative and ballot initiatives attacking the civil rights of gays and lesbians. They will try and craft the laws to use different language than the court struck down." The ruling comes at a critical moment when a constitutional battle over another aspect of gay rights -->