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...Health Topic: Mammograms ? All about the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program...
...Thank you, Mr. President. We get the point. Despite the obviously conflicting advice coming from various staffers on this sensitive topic - and your well-considered decision to avoid the issue altogether during your presidential campaign - you've decided the time is ripe to establish yourself as the anti-abortion President. Wait, now, let me think? ah, yes. We remember you: You're the guy who spent his time in the Texas governor's mansion vowing to end legal abortion. You'll have to forgive us for not remembering your deep-seated passion for the topic; after all, it has been...
...case that elbowed terrorism off the top of the radio talk-show topic list and gave American parents and sports fans plenty of dark thoughts, a Reading, Mass., truck driver was on trial last week for killing the adult supervising a kids' hockey scrimmage. Friday evening, after a six-day trial in which the defendant and his son both testified, a jury of nine women and three men convicted Thomas Junta, 44, of involuntary manslaughter, which could earn him up to 20 years in the state penalty box. The most likely sentence, to be announced at a hearing...
...Eight of the 13 accused are from the Malay minority; six of the eight had served in the armed forces. (National service is compulsory for male citizens.) That has turned a spotlight on a touchy topic: Where do the loyalties of the Malay minority, which forms about 14% of the population, ultimately lie? The Malay community has made progress in recent years, in universities and in the job market. But it is still poorer than the other two major ethnic groups, Chinese and Indians, and tops the list of the government's carefully compiled stats on divorce rates and drug...
...very pessimistic about our ability to reach a reasonable decision on this topic. And I base that pessimism on my attempts to find some kind of common ground among members of Congress. In terms of where we're heading, I think a fair guess is it will end in a stalemate. And I say that because the people who want to ban cloning don't want to stop the ban at reproductive cloning - they want to extend the ban to cover embryonic cloning and therapeutic cloning as well. They are not disposed to compromise, and of course the same...