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...thwart any such acts, the Administration last week dispatched federal marshals to protect abortion clinics around the country. In Pensacola, where a clinic opened for the first time since Dr. Britton's murder, a dozen protesters looked on as an officer whisked an unidentified man, presumably the doctor's successor, into the building. A potentially more dangerous situation exists in Gulfport, Mississippi, where pro-life activists have vowed to begin a campaign against Dr. Joseph Booker, who they claim is the state's only full- time abortion doctor. It will be the maiden effort of the American Coalition of Life...
That's why both AirTouch Communications and Nynex Corp. last fall began testing a system to thwart telephone thieves that was developed by aerospace conglomerate TRW. The pirates typically use radio scanners to record the serial number and subscriber identity number that each cellular phone transmits at the start of a call. Then they program the numbers into their own phones, leaving the victim to get the bills. But TRW engineers have come up with a proprietary method for analyzing and storing a third signature of cellular phones -- their unique radio-frequency signal, which cannot be cloned...
...begin infiltrating radical antiabortionist groups as it has the Ku Klux Klan in the past. Harsh as that sounds, if Britton's death causes Phillips or other abortion providers to step down in fear, Griffin, Hill and others like them will have achieved the goal of all terrorism: to thwart the established policy of a nation through the pinpoint application of brutal violence...
Nixon's hands-on role in the cover-up of that crime is amply documented, both in the recollections of his chief aides and in excerpts from the White House tapes. He orders the CIA to thwart the FBI's investigation of the break- in, discusses paying hush money to the Watergate burglars, devises ever more outlandish stratagems to avoid turning over the incriminating tapes. For nutty nostalgia, can anything beat the unforgettable Stennis gambit? As a compromise, Nixon proposed that only one person be allowed to listen to the tapes -- John Stennis, a conservative 72-year-old Senator from...
...would adhd have evolved in the first place? Perhaps, like the sickle-cell trait, which can help thwart malaria, attention deficit confers an advantage in certain circumstances. In Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, author Thom Hartmann has laid out a controversial but appealing theory that the characteristics known today as adhd were vitally important in early hunting societies. They became a mixed blessing only when human societies turned agrarian, Hartmann suggests. "If you are walking in the night and see a little flash, distractibility would be a tremendous asset. Snap decision making, which we call impulsiveness, is a survival...