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...premature infant knows the stakes are high. Doctors can sustain a tiny baby with severe bleeding in the brain, with lungs so fragile that even the gentlest respirator can permanently damage them. But should they? "That's when neonatology becomes a difficult and ethically fraught field," says Dr. Myra Wyckoff of the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center in Dallas. No matter how you answer the question, surely the best solution is to find a way to reduce the number of extremely premature births from happening in the first place. --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/Dallas, David Bjerklie/ New York...
...must be limited. In preparing for the war in Iraq, the Bush team purposefully ignored any views that conflicted with its own. In discussing the federal deficit, does President Bush ever sit down face to face with strong proponents of fiscal restraint? Or is this President isolated? STANLEY GOODMAN Wyckoff...
DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, the first woman to swim across the English Channel; in Wyckoff, N.J. In 1926 she covered 35 miles in 14 hr. 31 min.--faster than any of the five men who had previously made the swim--and was called "America's best girl" by President Calvin Coolidge...
...DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, American swimmer who was briefly a national icon after she became the first woman to swim the English Channel; in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Ederle accomplished the feat in 1926 in a then world-record time...
...more than any prior Administration. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have permitted the corporate heads of the energy industry to secretly influence government policy in that area and to date have refused oversight requests for accountability. During the Clinton Administration, this behavior was called scandalous. RICHARD IAN DERFLER Wyckoff...