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Most laws are a compromise which society decides between two conflicting desires. If you want to swing your arm wildly, you have every right to do so, but this right ends at the tip of my nose. If person A wants to commit violent acts for fun, and person B does not appreciate being beaten or killed, society makes a policy choice (simple in this situation) which values A's right to shoot and stab much lower than B's right not to be shot and stabbed. Sometimes the situation is less clear: Person A wants to listen to loud...
...friend who also helped polish Forbes' announcement speech. But his 18-hour days on the campaign trail are anything but a holiday. At a Burger King in Iowa City recently (Forbes is keen on the French fries), he was approached by a woman holding a baby in one arm and a Whopper in the other, who asked Forbes whether running for President was his hobby, like ballooning was his father's. Forbes grimaced, then recovered and replied graciously, "I assure you, there are better hobbies than this one." --With reporting by Tom Curry/New York
...Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia initialed a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war in Bosnia that has killed untold thousands; a formal signing ceremony is scheduled to take place in Paris in December. Bosnian Serb leaders, who at first vehemently opposed the accord, relented after arm twisting by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The agreement, while preserving Bosnia as a single state, separates it into two entities: a Serb republic, controlling 49% of the land, and a federation of Muslims and Croats, controlling 51%. The federation will also administer most of the long-besieged capital, Sarajevo...
...peace agreement in Paris on the 14th of December. Then, within a matter of days will follow a Security Council resolution -- since this whole operation is taking place under the rubric of the U.N -- asking NATO to do the job. The North Atlantic Council, NATO's political arm, will then ask its Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, General George Joulwan, to begin the operation. Within days you will begin to see American troops moving from Germany by rail and roads through Hungary into Bosnia." Van Voorst reports that the Hungarian parliament yesterday approved the use of its bases for transportation...
Blood is drawn intravenously through a tube stretching across the room through an opening in the wall, which can be attached to a subject's arm for up to a week. A technician can therefore draw blood regularly without disturbing the subject, even when he or she is asleep...