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...help for postpartum depression? Is Cruise really against prescription drugs, or does the idea of a strong woman taking charge of her health frighten him? Cruise's opinions belong in the Dark Ages. He needs to leave health-care options to medical professionals and their patients. Janice Fisher Midlothian, Virginia, U.S. Cruise's nutty behavior on Oprah was an example of what happens to superstars who reach the top and have no place to go but down. Look at Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. We treat celebrities like gods, then complain when they start to believe they can fly. Jonathan...
...world of politics, Bob Heleringer, a mayoral candidate in Louisville, has been debating himself on an apple crate; a federal judge in Virginia may retire soon, or he may not; and George Bush paid a social call on the Reagans at the ranch...
Union Carbide's Institute facility, one of many plants that dot West Virginia's "Chemical Valley," has been a source of public concern for almost a year. Its output includes methyl isocyanate (MIC), the gas that killed 2,500 people and injured 200,000 when it leaked from a Union Carbide unit in Bhopal, India, last December. After that horror, the manufacturer shut down Institute's MIC unit for five months and spent $5 million improving its safety and production equipment...
...West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd inspected the plant two days after the accident and pledged that "scrutiny of this whole situation will be more intense than before." Lee Thomas, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, expressed "a sense of urgency" about tightening Union Carbide's safety measures. (Two days after the Institute crisis, a company plant in South Charleston, W. Va., leaked about 4,000 lbs of an ontoxic mixture used to make hydraulic brake fluid.) The company's beleaguered chairman, Warren Anderson, traveled to West Virginia, where he announced that in the future Union Carbide would sound alarm swarning...
...video at an event in Louisville where religious leaders argued for approving Bush's judicial nominees, pushing the "nuclear option" to prevent Democrats from filibustering Bush's judicial nominees and speaking on the Senate floor about Terry Schiavo's medical condition. Other potential candidates are making more quiet moves. Virginia Senator George Allen has emerged as leading voice for conservatives unhappy with the McCain-lead compromise that ended the judicial filibuster debate and has called on Frist to bring up more controversial nominees to force a vote. Last month, Allen spoke at the graduation at Regents University, a small school...