Word: withdrawn
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...criminal penalties. "Physicians have no business acting as agents of the state to punish people," says Dr. George Annas, a professor of health law at Boston University medical school. "This includes sterilization, any surgical procedure or ((implanting)) Norplant." In the Butler case so far, one doctor has already withdrawn his agreement to perform the castration...
...artificial sweetener saccharin, mice were given the equivalent of hundreds of cans of diet soda a day; similarly, a person would have had to eat thousands of apples a day to get the maximum tolerated dose of Alar, a fruit-ripening chemical used by growers until it was withdrawn from the market because of a cancer scare. If as few as five mice out of 200 given these megadoses develop tumors over two years, the substance is usually labeled a carcinogen...
...they don't know who they're dealing with. Instead of passively standing by as they rough up a Black activist, a previously withdrawn Sweetback beats the white cops to death--using the very handcuffs that restrain...
...leaving only Russia with missiles capable of striking the U.S. Washington, which is developing a plan to help the new republics dismantle their nuclear arsenals, also disclosed that all tactical nuclear weapons are concentrated in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and that by July they will be either decommissioned or withdrawn to Russia...
...seen as an in-house rescue program for a select few," says Arthur Helton, director of the refugee program run by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York City. It also remains uncertain how an embassy operating with only a skeleton crew -- most staff members have been withdrawn since the coup -- will process all of the claims...