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...Crimson players skated into the National Hockey League (NHL) during last Saturday draft in Buffalo...
Feaster was the Sparks' first pick in the April WNBA draft. She led the team in scoring in pre-season, averaging 18.5 points per game in the Sparks' exhibition schedule...
...last week New Jersey learned of the measure's unforeseen consequences. According to a draft study prepared for the state health department by Rutgers University, the cap boosted New Jersey's abortion rate by an estimated 240 procedures a year. This "small but nontrivial" effect seemed to prove what antiabortion groups like the Catholic Conference have long warned: that some women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union...
State health officials have kicked the report back to Rutgers, alleging faulty methodology in the $1 million study. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, who had promised to revisit the law if it increased abortions, now sidesteps that pledge, saying the report is "only a draft." Conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council, which had lobbied for the cap to be made federal law despite the objections of other pro-life groups, avoided comment. But the hard questions aren't going away. Rutgers is reviewing its study, but researchers don't expect the results to change...
...NAME] MIKE BIBBY [JOB] Basketball player [WHY IN THE NEWS] Projected to be high pick in the 1998 NBA draft [DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC] Can hit from downtown [FREQUENTLY PHOTOGRAPHED] Dribbling...