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...black woman, Richard and Mildred Loving, the resistance to mixed nuptials in the South seemed to stay as firm as the reverence some there still have for the Confederate flag. It was only three years ago that Alabama became the last state to drop its (unenforceable) ban on mixed marriage, and it did so with just a 60%-to-40% vote by residents to make the change...
...panel also rejected a provision of McCain-Feingold that would ban corporations and labor unions from running ads explicitly referring to political candidates immediately before an election. This clause is meant to ensure that non-voting entities like corporations are not able buy political influence by essentially paying for a candidate’s ads. The prohibition will also cut down on attack ads, which are often funded by independent groups like corporations or unions. At the same time, the provision leaves anybody free to run truly issue-based ads at any time. A return to truly issue-based...
...University lifted its SARS-related moratorium on travel to Singapore yesterday following the advice of the Center for Disease Control, according to the University’s website. The decision comes almost a week after the University called off its travel ban to Toronto, Canada, on the recommendation of the World Health Organization. The University originally banned travel to these areas last month as cases of SARS spread around the world. The moratorium on travel to China, including Hong Kong, and Taiwan remains in place...
Even as the Democrats claw at one another for the chance to challenge Bush, the President's team is actively trying to influence the other party's nomination race. The G.O.P. has turned Bush's campaign to ban massive jury awards in personal-injury cases into an assault on Senator John Edwards, a former trial lawyer. Hoping to pin down the North Carolinian in his home state, Rove persuaded G.O.P. Congressman Richard Burr to challenge Edwards for his Senate seat. And when Massachusetts Senator John Kerry suggested that the U.S. was just as much in need of "regime change...
...branches of four of Asia's major rivers?the Yangtze, the Mekong, the Salween and the Irrawaddy. Between their banks soar some of the fastest-growing mountain ranges on earth, which in turn harbor the world's most biologically diverse temperate forests. Since 1998, when a large-scale ban on commercial logging axed 80% of Yunnan's income, its local governments have latched onto tourism as their salvation. But China's standard models for tourism development?the building of big roads, bigger hotels and gaudy karaoke palaces?pose a threat to these natural riches. Conservationists, most prominent among them...