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...pregnancy is still early enough for the pill to be used safely, which will automatically exclude many women who don't realize they are pregnant until more than 49 days after their last period. Two sets of pills are required--first mifepristone, then, two days later, misoprostol, to trigger contractions and expel the fetal tissue--and that can cause nausea, heavy bleeding and painful cramping. After about 12 days, a woman must return to the doctor to confirm that the abortion was successful...
...investigators are still not sure a federal crime has been committed. The only one they could come up with--theft from a federally financed activity--is such a stretch that it might not apply: it's hard to argue that the papers and tape are valuable enough to trigger the statute, which requires that the stolen material be worth more than...
...consumption had been discovered in Taco Bell's tacos. The corn, known as StarLink, contains a gene from a bacterium that makes the corn deadly to corn borers but not to cows. It was approved for use as cattle feed but not for human consumption, for fear it could trigger allergic reactions...
...argue this as a wondrous stimulation and expansion of democracy. On the other hand, the hair-trigger modem, wired directly to the adrenal glands and needing only a finger twitch to hit SEND, encourages a certain violence of opinion--impulsiveness that hardens more quickly than before into dogmatism. Once you've sent it, you're committed to it; you've got to defend it. On almost any subject--gay scoutmasters, say, or capital punishment or abortion--Americans tend to accelerate at unnatural speeds toward absolutes and sort themselves into fierce tribes to defend the absolute they've chosen...
...sure a federal crime has been committed. The only plausible one they could come up with - theft from a federally financed activity - is so much of a stretch that it might not apply: It's hard to argue, after all, that the papers and tape are valuable enough to trigger the statute, which requires that the stolen material be worth more than...