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About Face VENEZUELA In an unexpected turnaround, President Hugo Chávez announced that he would accept the verdict - due in mid-February - of the National Electoral Council on the validity of an opposition petition for a recall vote. Organizers of the petition claim to have collected more than the 2.4 million signatures needed to trigger a vote, which might force Chávez to stand down...
...study center, injuring 14 people. Says Hayat: "Their tentacles are spread far and wide." On the run now, these groups may be more dangerous than ever. Says an ex-commander of one of them in Lahore: "The boys aren't listening to anyone. They're desperate. They don't accept that the days of jihad are over." --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Ghulam Hasnain/Lahore
...missions to space fails, usually catastrophically. Also, the government could set rules onerous enough to ground the fledgling industry. The FAA is now charged with issuing launch licenses and could impose tough restrictions on private trips, in part to minimize its own potential liability. "Even if people accept the risks, our government will be regulating private space travel one way or another," says Henry Hertzfeld, a space-policy expert at George Washington University...
...Although there are numerous ways, one that is rarely mentioned is for people to accept responsibility for making lifestyle changes associated with many preventable diseases. If people had to pay out of thier own pocket for an illness caused by thier own poor health habits, it might be an incentive to take better care of ourselves, thus lowering our drug costs. Rosalyn Cordis Oak Park...
...ability to buy prescription drugs from Canada and Mexico. Globalization seems to apply to everything accept the pharmaceuticals. Universal health care would also be a safeguard against price gouging. Jerry Hallford Stockbridge...