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...that such evidence was admissible so long as police obtained a warrant and were acting in "good faith." In California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, state supreme court judges have decided that their constitutions demand public financing of abortions for poor women, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has found no reason under the U.S. Constitution to require such spending. Oregon and Hawaii, respectively, going far beyond the U.S. Supreme Court, have used the free speech and privacy guarantees in their constitutions to strike down local antipornography laws...
Failure to make treatment available to drug addicts who seek it will ensure yet another generation of addicted babies and battered kids. In Los Angeles the number of drug-exposed babies entering the foster-care system rose 453% between 1984 and 1987. A survey of states found that drugs are involved in more than 2 out of 3 child abuse and neglect cases. Children born into a family of addicts are left with impossible choices: a life with the abusers they know, or a life at the mercy of a system filled with strangers -- lawyers, judges, social workers, foster parents...
...mercurial jazz trumpeter, famous for playing short sets with his back turned toward high-paying crowds, has found a new way of showing disdain for audiences. Rather than speaking into the microphone to identify various soloists, Davis simply holds up placards bearing their names...
After a balky start, the Magellan probe is mapping the cloud-shrouded planet by radar. Found so far: giant craters, major lava flows and a webwork of faults...
...spring of 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...