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...That approach may, however, be losing steam, especially in states like Oregon and Colorado, where juvenile death rates have risen along with membership in anti-medical sects. State legislators are energetically sponsoring bills that would end the ban on prosecuting parents whose religion compels them to withhold medical treatment...
...country, two systems," but the trend, many fear, is veering more toward a single country and less toward diverging systems. Prominent Hong Kong citizens with strong ties to Beijing are issuing shrill condemnations of Falun Gong and its activities in the territory, prompting speculation that a mainland-style ban may follow. Others are happy to jettison personal freedoms if that increases the chance of doing business with the mainland...
...genial but unpopular Chief Executive, looked into the political abyss and backed away. Speaking to Hong Kong's Legislative Council, he echoed Beijing's assertion that Falun Gong is an "evil cult." But he stopped short of saying he would follow the suggestions of pro-Beijing figures to ban the group. As one official put it, Tung was walking a "razor's edge," trying to keep mainland backers happy while avoiding comments that might suggest the city's vaunted autonomy and rule of law were crumbling. The situation is so precarious that even Democratic Party leader Martin Lee, a frequent...
...intended effect of the change is to attract more minority students. Black and Latino enrollment at U.C. dipped measurably in the wake of California's 1996 ban on the use of affirmative action in admissions. The SATs are a major reason: last year the mean score for blacks on the SAT was 198 points lower than that for whites. Recently, when Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania and Bates College in Maine stopped requiring the SAT, minority applications doubled...
...attack on the local McDonald's after the U.S. slapped a 100 percent tariff on the import of the Roquefort cheese made by the accused and his fellow fighting farmers. The U.S. tariff had been sanctioned by the World Trade Organization, as a retaliation for France's ban on hormone-treated American beef...