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<p>The heartbreaking story of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman who has been kept alive for more than a decade by a feeding tube her husband claims she would want removed, has captured the media's attention.</p> <p>The significance of the Schiavo story, however, is not just her dramatic circumstances, but the ethical questions that surround the debate over using heroic measures to keep a brain-damaged/brain-dead person alive when that person has not left clear instructions.</p>

TODAY: Security Council to vote on resolution seeking assurances of leader’s safetyUNITED NATIONS - Facing a U.S. veto threat, the U.N. Security Council set a vote for Tuesday on a resolution, backed by Arab nations, demanding that Israel not harm or deport Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. THE COUNCIL'S decision Monday night to go to a vote on a resolution drafted by the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Nasser al-Kidwa, capped a day of harsh debate in which more than 40 governments took the floor to condemn a decision by the Israeli security Cabinet to get rid of Arafat through...

JERUSALEM, June 25 — The Islamic militant group Hamas has agreed in principle to halt attacks on Israelis for three months but is seeking support from other armed groups before making a formal announcement, a leader of an allied group said Wednesday. It was uncertain if new violence would delay an agreement after Israel killed two Hamas attackers in the Gaza Strip and foiled a planned Palestinian bombing. HAMAS OFFICIALS in Gaza would not confirm the report, but there have been growing signs that a truce is near. Palestinian sources said they expected a formal truce announcement by the militants...

IRS Says Drug Money Laundered Through Record Label Sat May 3,12:40 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Murder Inc., a rap label partly owned by the world's biggest music company, Universal Music, allegedly was used to launder money for a drug dealer, according to court papers unsealed this week.   The document, filed in January in Brooklyn federal court by an Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites) special agent, alleges that convicted drug dealer Kenneth McGriff, who was released from prison in 1995, has returned to the drug business,...