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...bill represents a shamefully political reaction to the events of Oklahoma City. Although the content of the bill is, for the most part, not fundamentally objectionable--with the exception, perhaps, of the anti-alien clause--its timing is open to question. On the day of the vote, with teary-eyed relatives of Oklahoma victims standing alongside, senators indulged in the sort of sentimental anti-terrorist rhetoric that is impossible to contradict and so ends up meaning nothing. No self-respecting legislator wants to be soft on terrorists...
...didn't want to see their city turned into another prison, opened and closed according to Israel's wish," says Khatib. As long as the West Bank's future is still under negotiation, its residents remain subject to the indignities of the occupation: checkpoints, curfews, the presence of an alien army. What's more, the Israelis continue to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, making Palestinians doubt that the Israelis will ever relinquish meaningful control over the area...
Apparently not. A four month intensive search for extraterrestrial life conducted by the California-based Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) has unearthed evidence of a whole lot of suburban life, but nothing that can be called alien communications. Using Australia's biggest telescope and multimillion-dollar scanning equipment, an international team tracked 28 million radio frequencies. But instead of overhearing a couple of aliens talking about which small farmtown to spook, SETI picked up the racket of microwave ovens, garage-door openers, mobile phones and orbiting satellites. The team will now resume the search from California. Bound to find...
Since late 1993 the FCC has been examining allegations brought by a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, later bolstered by NBC, that Murdoch's 1985 purchase of TV stations now at the core of his Fox network violated a U.S. law that barred alien companies from indirectly controlling or owning more than 25% of a station. The N.A.A.C.P. further charged that Murdoch was guilty of a "lack of candor" -- that he had tried to hide the true ownership structure from the commission...
...some of his opinions may seem, it is absolutely critical that Mack's academic freedom be defended and that his tenure be preserved. Academic freedom would be a hollow and meaningless construct if it were employed to guarantee only those opinions which are commonly considered valid. The possibility of alien abduction may be hard to fathom, but it is precisely in this extreme case that Harvard's commitment to freedom of thought needs to be staunchest...