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...What has been achieved is recognition by the U.S. that ... India should have the same benefits and rights as a nuclear weapons state." SHYAM SARAN, Indian Foreign Secretary, after the Bush Administration agreed to dismantle an international ban on sales of nuclear energy technology to India following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington...
...campus life SSP constructs also gives students a taste of college life, although the program also offers rules and checks—like a strictly enforced ban on underage drinking, curfews for rising juniors, and a network of proctors serving as resident tutors—to help students avoid sand traps sometimes encountered during freshman fall...
Even worse are the blatant special-interest politics that infests every piece of policy on the table. A proposal to ban junk-food sales in public schools is quickly advancing through the chambers in Sacramento, while one that would end soda sales (thought to be a direct cause of obesity that is easier to delineate than the nebulous label of “junk food”) is stalling due to aggressive lobbying from Pepsi and Coke. Such policies should at least be applied consistently...
...nothing if not a fighter, and last week he came out swinging on both the security and economic fronts. Following a series of bombings Thursday in the southern town of Yala that killed two people, Thaksin issued an executive decree giving himself the power to order arrests without warrants, ban arms possession, declare curfews and censor news reports. "We have to be decisive now," he said. Earlier in the week, the Prime Minister showered various sectors with pecuniary perks, including a 5% civil-service pay hike, a tax cut for businesses, $500 million in loans for rural villages...
...CHEMICAL-FREE TREES The college town of Lawrence, Kans., is testing a plan to ban all pesticides and herbicides from public parks...