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...Colorado River begins high above the tree lines, amid the glaciers and snowpack on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Icy rivulets collect and drip into streams, trickling and then plunging downward. In the peaks of eastern Utah, where the Green River hurtles south from Wyoming to meet the Upper Colorado, the water starts getting serious. It wants to reach sea level -- in this case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece...
...last thing the President wants is a brawl with the Judiciary Committee over confirmation. The committee's chemistry is already explosive enough, with such liberals as chairman Joseph Biden and Ted Kennedy squaring off against conservatives Orrin Hatch of Utah and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on issues like the crime and civil rights bills. "The Democrats aren't beating us anywhere right now, and we want to keep it that way," says a senior White House official. "The President has them beaten in approval ratings. When he vetoes a bill, we're able to sustain it. When he wants...
...UTAH. Approved by Governor Norman Bangerter in January, Utah's statute permits abortions only if pregnancy results from rape or incest, if childbearing could cause "grave damage to the pregnant woman's medical health" or if the procedure is intended to prevent the birth of a child with "grave defects." The state has refrained from putting the measure into effect until a federal district court rules on its constitutionality...
...life of the mother or in some cases of rape or incest. The new law was rushed before a federal judge in New Orleans, who will hold a hearing next month on its constitutionality, the first step on the road to the Supreme Court, where antiabortion laws from Pennsylvania, Utah and Guam are also headed...
...regulators who reigned during the Reagan years. With a degree in medicine from Harvard and one in law from the University of Chicago, he understands health issues and knows how to devise and enforce tough regulations. In the early '80s he served as a consultant on FDA matters to Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, who brought Kessler's talents to the attention of the Bush Administration. But the White House, with its friends in Big Business and its fealty to the philosophy of deregulation, may not have expected so much activism so soon. "I have no problems making decisions," declares...