U S. Won’t Attend Nairobi Land Mine Conference
The United States will skip a major review conference on the 1997 Ottawa Treaty due to cost and pact disagreements. State Department says absence does not indicate indifference as 51 countries have not ratified the treaty and U S humanitarian demining has cost nearly $1 billion in the past decade.
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Russia
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Lincoln Bloomfield
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Funeral for Hunter Mark Reidt Held in Dobie Wisconsin
Mourners leave Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Dobie after the funeral for Mark Reidt. The service marked the first held for six deer hunters killed in northwestern Wisconsin last Sunday.
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Dobie
Wis
Mark Reidt
Reidt
Wisconsin
Oregon Death with Dignity Law Faces Bush Challenge
The Bush administration seeks to overturn Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act arguing federal law bars doctors from prescribing means to self deliver death. The law, enacted by voter initiative in 1994 and in effect since 1997, allows terminally ill patients to end their lives with physician assistance under strict safeguards.
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Bush
John Ashcroft
Supreme Court
Ashcroft
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Supreme Court to hear Jackson Title IX complaint
Birmingham coach Roderick Jackson, claiming gender bias at Ensley High, seeks Title IX protection for whistleblowers after alleging discriminatory gym conditions and funding gaps. The case, supported by the National Women's Law Center, tests whether Title IX shields those who report discrimination regardless of their sex. Jackson plans to attend the Supreme Court arguments, missing a game for the first time in 18 years.
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Ala
Roderick Jackson
Ensley High School
Jackson
Birmingham Board of Education
Supreme Court
Washington
Washington, D.C
National Women’s Law Center
Ensley High
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