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...longer than the average restaurant's, and the drill is more tedious. Menus can change daily, depending on what is available. Since there is no federal definition of what is organic, chefs tend to rely on products certified as authentic by various local groups. They rush as often as five times a week to local farmers' markets or grow their own produce in backyard gardens. Appointed buyers search for veal that is "humanely raised" and fed milk from cows that eat organic grain...
...peculiar legal irony, many states make it illegal to assist in suicide; yet again and again, the courts have upheld the rights of conscious but paralyzed patients to have their ventilators and feeding tubes disconnected. In the most recent, highly publicized case, quadriplegic Larry James McAfee, still paralyzed five years after a motorcycle accident, petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow him to disconnect his own ventilator using a special mouth-activated switch. Upholding McAfee's privacy rights, the court granted his petition. But McAfee subsequently decided not to end his life after...
...being more approachable than men, more service oriented and more concerned with their communities than with their personal ambitions. "When I took office three years ago, we had a mayor who'd been convicted. We had a councilman and a housing director under investigation. The city had gone through five mayors in four years," she says. "I was elected as a Democrat in a heavily Republican city with 60%. Mayor Mo must be doing something right...
...Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. They will use as their framework a proposal put forward ten months ago by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Balloting will then be held in the occupied territories to elect representatives to negotiate a period of limited self-rule. Within five years, those representatives will begin negotiations on the final status of the disputed territories...
...three Libner lads have not spoken for what they indifferently estimate as three to five years, all being sure they have nothing but genes in common. The eldest, Marvin (Daniel Stern), is an officious straight arrow. The youngest, Bobby (Patrick Dempsey), is a juvenile delinquent manque. The middle brother, Buddy (Arye Gross), naturally keeps trying to mediate fraternal fractiousness. None can imagine why their father Fred (Alan Arkin) insists that they all are needed to perform a single task: pick up a perfectly preserved 1954 Cadillac convertible in Detroit and deliver it (despite speed traps, accidents and fights for control...