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...quality of medical care received by severely handicapped infants. Striking down the Administration's controversial ''Baby Doe'' regulations, the Justices ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services had no authority to pressure hospitals to treat handicapped newborns without parental consent. Solicitor General Charles Fried, who last summer argued the Administration's case for upholding the Pennsylvania law, stood up to the judicial barrage at a press conference. ''Some weeks are better than others,'' he shrugged. Seizing on Burger's support for the dissenters in the Pennsylvania decision, Fried countered, ''I think what we have here is a shift...
...Healey with a grin. A few acts were quick to sign on, however. Sting, who has been on the road with a new band for the past 18 months, says only Amnesty could have dragged him out of bed to perform. Because of Bono's sympathies, U2 canceled two summer tour weeks to play for free. In the end, Healey had a suitably superstar lineup, snaring Ruben Blades, Jackson Browne, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and Pete Townshend for spot appearances. Even Sean Penn and Madonna emceed in Los Angeles, and she promised to join Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston and Meryl...
...matter of some 4,500 miles. But you can't drive from Juneau, the capital, to Anchorage. The road from Juneau goes 40 miles and stops. Take a plane. Take a ferry; in Alaska, the ferries are part of the highway system. Taylor Highway, a gravel track passable in summer, heads north from the Alaska Highway through Chicken (so named, according to local lore, because its founders could not spell ptarmigan) and eventually reaches Eagle, where it stops. The most self-indulgent and leisurely way to reach Alaska is to head for Seattle or Vancouver, board a cruise ship...
...another jolt with the departure of President Richard D. Pearson. Heartening as the rise in bookings was for airlines and travel agents, it was noteworthy that most of the increase came from individual American tourists, rather than from the group tours that traditionally make up 25% of the transatlantic summer-season business. ''The group travelers are a little greener, a little more skittish,'' says Pan Am's Richman. For all the indications that the tourist slide had stopped, however, the doleful fact remained that the European tourist business this summer will remain rotten, especially compared with 1985, when a record...
...Beaches from Marseille to Monaco have been plagued this summer by millions of the gelatinous invaders, whose burning stings have sent scores of holiday-makers fleeing the surf with yelps of pain since large numbers of jellyfish were first sighted along France's coast in June. And those menacing the shorelines are simply the outriders of giant shoals that marine biologists have identified hovering between Corsica and France's southern shores. Sections of that invertebrate mother ship are blown to land by unpredictable shifting winds that can turn coastal water into jellyfish marshes overnight - and then leave the same area...