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AWOL may also have more dire effects on the body. For one thing, AWOL could lead to alcoholism; one of the common ways to induce alcoholism in rats is to force them to breathe in alcohol. Colorado has already created legislation to ban AWOL because it may lead to higher rates of drunk driving and heavy drinking—or heavy breathing, as the case...
...controversies, including a 1991 memo he signed while Chief Economist for the World Bank suggesting that third-world nations are under-polluted, his support for the military’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program—which is barred from campus and has been criticized for its ban on openly-gay members, and his statements calling the signers of a petition for Harvard’s divestment from Israel anti-Semitic “in their effect, if not their intent?...
Massachusetts is the next stop for fusion voting, and we give our enthusiastic support to a new bill, filed in December in the House of Representatives, proposing that the state lift its ban on the practice. Stronger third parties in Massachusetts would create better politics in a state where the entrenched power of a Democratic legislature and a Republican governor has held up progress on many issues. New parties could emerge alongside longtime minor parties, like the Libertarians and the Greens. They could help make local elections competitive again and bring more voters into the political process...
...conventional wisdom in Europe is that the ban (which has never been watertight) will be ended this year. Conceivably, though, threats of retaliation from the U.S. Congress might convince the E.U. to back down?Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Financial Times recently that he would support a ban on the export of sensitive American technology to Europe if there were a chance it would end up in Chinese hands. That will be enough to persuade some European firms with substantial American business?such as BAE Systems, the U.K's largest defense company...
...campaign to roll up local al-Qaeda cells after terrorists brought the war home to Riyadh, attacking housing compounds and killing 34 on May 12, 2003. U.S. diplomats believe that a significant effort has also been made to control the private Saudi charities that fund Islamist radicalism. A temporary ban has been placed on donations going overseas, with recent exceptions only for tsunami relief and the crisis in Darfur. "The ban is outrageous!" a Saudi politician screamed in a private meeting. "Why are you Americans insisting on this? Thousands of children all over Africa are going without food and clothing...