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...even the most ardent marijuana advocates aren't expecting nationwide legalization anytime soon. Instead, any action is likely to come on the state and local level. For now, all eyes are on cash-strapped California, where high taxes could take on an entirely new meaning...
...Even the touchy subject of fishing rights could be overcome. Iceland has long jealously guarded the sovereignty of the lucrative, 200-mile (320-km) fishing zone around the island. Fish and seafood account for 37% of Iceland's exports, and employ 8% of the work force; even ardent Euro-enthusiasts are loath to see their prime natural resource fall under the sway of the E.U.'s controversial Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). But while Reykjavik cannot expect an exemption, it could negotiate special protocols to take account of the importance of the fishing sector to the nation...
...sunset provision will quietly terminate University subsidies for a vaccine preventing genital warts and cervical cancer at the end of the month, ending a program created two years ago only after months of ardent student campaigning...
...getting in the way of being President one day in the future. But her champions note that she is now in a position to earn as much money in two weeks of speechmaking as she would have earned in the rest of her term. She has a following as ardent as that of any modern leader - whom she will now be more conveniently positioned to lead. In this view, she didn't leave the governor's office because it was too demanding but because it was too small...
...Long a board member of the national advisory council for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, she became an ardent activist for the Cancer Society. She put the news of her condition, and the remains of her celebrity, to worthy use. O'Neal hoped she would finally marry him, and she agreed, but at the end, she was too weak for the ceremony to be performed. A Catholic priest performed last rites a few hours before her death this morning in Santa Monica, Calif. O'Neal was with...