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L.D.I.'s emergence has many abortion-rights supporters worried-and outraged. Bush says the emotional and financial toll of fighting malpractice suits will probably shut down some abortion clinics, but many will dig in and fight. "It's absolutely bunk that they care about women," says Bush about Crutcher and his organization. "Everything I have seen from Life Dynamics is very specifically focused on driving the abortionists out of business." But Crutcher argues he's keeping women safe and keeping abortionists honest. Of course, what troubles abortion-rights advocates is that L.D.I.'s ultimate goal isn't better abortion services...
...zealous questioning of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. It is a complicated political legacy. While conservatives applauded him, others were disturbed that his 1992 Senate opponent's most potent attack ads were of Specter at those hearings. Those who know him say the hearings took their toll. "He looked like he had been beaten by a stick," says his senior adviser Ed Howard, recalling a meeting the two had after the hearings. "He said, 'Ed, I think I've lost every friend I have.'" Though he has a strong record on women's issues, he admits...
Diplomats say the death toll has climbed above 500 a week. To date, at least 30,000 Algerians have died, and guerrillas have burned down 600 schools and several universities. What remains of the rest of the country's infrastructure is badly crippled. Rebels destroy trains and tracks almost nightly. At least three key bridges in the Algiers regions were destroyed this month. The official Algerian Press Service claims sabotage operations caused more than $1 billion in damage last year...
Fasting does take a physical toll, however, according to Abbas A. Hyderi...
...tech crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended to cope primarily with threats to computer security posed by hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only in the sense that a bank robbery with a getaway...