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<p>The parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman whose husband is poised to remove her feeding tube made a last-ditch effort yesterday to save their daughter from being starved to death.</p> <p>Terri Schiavo's parents yesterday offered a deal to their son-in-law, who has prevailed in legal efforts to remove his wife's feeding tube in a Florida hospice beginning at 2 p.m. tomorrow.</p>

<p>Murder in America has fallen into a historic slump, and that's a fact more people can live with. Murder rates have dropped to levels not seen since the mid-1960s, punctuating the end of a bloody 20th century where more than twice as many died in American homicides as U.S. troops did in wars.</p>

<p>The decision by a federal appeals court that found "supper prayer" at the Virginia Military Institute violated the Constitution may spell trouble for U.S. military academies, said interest groups who declared victory in the case.</p> <p>"I really think the logic, the reasoning that the court used, should have an identical application in the military academies," said Rebecca Glenberg, lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.</p>

<p>Top U.S. military planners have issued the equivalent of a broad indictment for war crimes punishable by prison or death against Iraqi policy-makers and troops even before coalition forces have secured Baghdad.</p> <p>Two war-crimes specialists served notice at the Pentagon that wheels are turning to punish "textbook violations" against U.S. and British prisoners and Iraqi civilians during the current war, as well as prosecuting unpunished abuses in Kuwait from the 1990-91 Persian Gulf war.</p>