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...marriage of two such powerful partners is certain to accelerate the conversion of modern cable TV into the two-way, interactive system that will allow consumers to order movies, browse through store merchandise, send pictures of the kids to Grandma, make phone calls and request a wide variety of information services -- all by pushing buttons on their TV remote controls. Time Warner officials now say it will take five years -- not 10, as previously estimated -- for these new services to be rolled out to the company's 7.1 million cable subscribers...
...proof, ethicists point to the world's euthanasia laboratory, the Netherlands, where for almost 20 years the courts have not convicted doctors who assist in suicides at the explicit request of the patient. Last February, the Dutch parliament moved to give doctors the actual right to do so -- if they follow strict guidelines for second opinions. Yet a 1991 study found that in one year more than 1,000 Dutch patients who were not capable of giving consent died at their doctors' hands...
...Hogue's request for a deferment was approved, and he broke his parole, granted after one year of his sentence, to travel to the New Jersey school. There, he succeeded in bilking Princeton of nearly $22,000. After he was arrested for breaking parole, defrauding the university and several other charges, he served nine months at the Mercer County Detention Center in New Jersey...
...drama was set in motion by a seemingly innocuous message, sent to Washington from Mogadishu. Colonel Peck had taken a break from his duties as chief spokesman for the U.S. military forces in Somalia to write the Senate Armed Services Committee with a request to testify in favor of the military ban on gays. When Scott learned of the pending appearance, he feared disaster. During the past year, while studying journalism at the University of Maryland, he had written several articles for a student publication, the Retriever, that, he says, "left no doubt that I was gay." Scott was afraid...
...jury in Austin, Texas, convicted rapist Joel Valdez, who claimed his victim had consented to "making love" because she asked him to put on a condom. The woman said her request was driven by a fear of AIDS. Valdez was sentenced to 40 years...