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Along with education, one of President Bush's first priorities in office should be the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Though the treaty failed in 1999, it has a better chance of passing the Senate if given support from the new Republican administration...
...nations from developing more advanced nuclear weapons. His analysis confirms what proponents of the treaty have argued all along--that, as the nation with the most advanced nuclear weapons and the most sophisticated technology to simulate actual tests, the U.S. has the most to gain from a comprehensive test ban...
Some will surely argue that we need tough laws to prevent some kook from setting up a DNA shop on a deserted island and breeding superbabies--a genetic Temptation Island. Others will say we need an international ban lest we find ourselves taking orders from the next Saddam Hussein's eugenically brewed army...
...industrialized world," says Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University professor who studies juvenile justice. Over the past decade, the trend in the U.S. has been to allow publication of ever more information about underage offenders. U.S. courts also give more weight to press freedom than English courts, which, for example, ban all video cameras...
...issue is one of free speech as well as funding. The policy, originally called the Mexico City provision, was named for a population conference in 1984 where the U.S. first outlined what would become policy in both the Ronald Reagan and George Bush administrations. Bill Clinton lifted the ban in January 1993 in one of his first acts as president...