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...lacking decent values and conscience. There is no rationale or political ideology, including reprisals for past wrongs, that can justify such an atrocity. This latest act should brand these terrorists and their cause, as well as those who support them, with shame, dishonor and world condemnation. Bart Gethmann Wheaton, Ill...
Carol Melzer, 30, of La Grange, Ill., was visiting friends in France when the trouble began. "My eye started bothering me on Sunday night," she recalls. "By Tuesday morning I was in the American Hospital of Paris." Her problem: a severe infection apparently caused by her use of extended-wear contact lenses. Though doctors managed to control the infection, Melzer's cornea was so badly scarred that she was virtually blind in her right...
...occasional wrinkle, an odd hitch in these tidy instructions pops up in the form of a fierce local sirocco that hurls itself at cyclonic force across the plains of eastern Colorado. It moves as a solid wall of dust, opaque and hard on the nerves of any ill-informed motorist it happens to catch. All a fool can do in these circumstances is listen to the finish of the car being grit-blasted away. Even with the windows closed, the dirt piles up on the dashboard and gathers in the folds of clothes and collects on the tongue. Coming...
Will County, Ill., last week closed its forest preserves until it can get a new liability policy on them--if that can be done at all--and Blue Lake, Calif. (pop. 1,200), has shut its skating rink, parks and tennis court. Hundreds of other towns in California and in New York State are "going bare." That is, they simply cannot get liability insurance...
...probability, that seriously overstates the case. Present and former trial lawyers populate state legislatures and Congress in numbers large enough to wield formidable blocking power. There is a question, too, of whether the courts would uphold any serious tort reforms that might be enacted. One omen: the Cook County, Ill., circuit court last year ruled that major parts of a newly enacted law stretching out damage awards in medical malpractice cases violated the Illinois constitution...