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...some of the high school age students say that just having the college experience is as rewarding as the dance classes. "It's a taste of independence," says Amy Landau, a high school senior from Scarsdale, N.Y. "You're thrown into a situation where you have to totally depend on yourself to get where you're going...
...been a consistent defender of states' rights against federal intrusion. At the same time, however, he has strongly resisted the efforts of other Justices to protect individual rights by broadly interpreting the Constitution. He is a staunch opponent of the controversial "exclusionary rule," under which illegally seized evidence is thrown out of court. A consistent proponent of the death penalty, he has railed against drawn-out legal appeals that delay executions...
...parental opposition, and a sheaf of air mail letters later, Elaine decides that she is going to take Peter up on his offer, irrespective of whether or not the Foreign Office approves of someone defecting in the opposite direction. The media cycle grinds into motion, and lovelorn Elaine is thrown into the midst of it. Why should she want to leave England for a communist country? How can she be certain that Peter isn't already married? Are individuals bigger than nations...
...respite. Elizabeth Bouvia, a 29-year-old California woman confined to a % hospital bed by cerebral palsy, in constant pain, unable to control her body, has for several years been suing to make her doctors stop force-feeding her and allow her to die. Her hopeless condition has thrown her back upon her last freedom--the freedom to decide to die--and even that freedom has so far been denied...
...build another orbiter when the whole purpose of the shuttle program has been thrown into question is illogical," contends Caltech's Murray. "The shuttle has become a substitute for a goal instead of a means of obtaining a goal." Murray and many other space specialists argue that manned flights should be confined to those missions that require a human presence. Placing satellites into orbit, they argue, rarely requires that astronauts go along on the dangerous ride...