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Former Vermont governor and physician Howard Dean touts his medical experience as a reason to support his run for the presidency — and well he should. Medicine is a noble calling — when, that is, doctors adhere to "Do no harm" values. Unfortunately, Dean's recent support of assisted suicide and euthanasia shows that he apparently doesn't believe in the Hippocratic values that have served doctors and their patients so well for 2,500 years. The Hippocratic Oath requires physicians to protect the lives and welfare of their patients and "keep them from harm and injustice." Toward this end, the Hippocratic doctor...

A Harris County grand jury indicted a Cypress teenager Wednesday for arson in a March flag-burning incident. Randall W. Heinrichs, 18, of the 14500 block of Enchanted Valley in Cypress, is accused in the March 22 burning of a U.S. flag that was displayed vertically on the building of Lumber Tag Specialties, said Kaylynn Williford, Harris County assistant district attorney. The building, in the 13300 block of Skinner,, was damaged in the fire and the flag was consumed, Williford said. No one was hurt. Heinrichs also is charged with criminal mischief in connection with a March 16 incident in which...

<p>BERLIN, Germany -- German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has said that neither his testimony in a kidnap trial nor his radical past should affect his current standing.</p> <p>He was speaking outside a Frankfurt court on Tuesday after giving evidence in the trial of former fellow radical, 52-year-old Hans-Joachim Klein.</p>