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...Obama administration, in an order signed in January by Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton, decided to lift the ban on Habib and a number of other scholars who were excluded for similar “national security reasons.” Since receiving his visa in mid-March and making his first return trip to the U.S., Habib has now spoken several times about his allegedly being barred from the country for political reasons...
Despite my personal dislike for the salon-tanning phenomenon, thousands of people continue to frequent tanning salons. The government has taken steps to restrict tanning bed use, like introducing a tax on tanning, and the Food and Drug Administration may even go further to ban those under 18 from tanning bed use. While the tanning bed tax is a great step in the right direction towards discouraging people from using these harmful devices, the FDA’s potential ban on minors’ use of them seems like an overstepping of boundaries because of its infringement of individual rights...
...government to go further and to ban those under 18 from using tanning beds is not only a little ridiculous but also too much of an encroachment of individual rights. People under 18 are already exposed to UV radiation on a daily basis, so banning tanning bed use would be like banning frolicking in the sun for extended periods of time without sunscreen use—a clearly ludicrous idea. To some extent, the absorption of harmful UV rays are a more natural part of our existence on this planet, unlike tobacco and alcohol consumption, so a ban on tanning...
...Harming animals hurts the spirit of the people, especially the younger generation," says Chang Jiwen, a professor of law at the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences and one of the key drivers of the legislation. "A ban on abusing animals generally would illustrate that China has reached a new level of civilization...
...Chinese government has come under increasing pressure from owners of tiger farms to relax the ban on trading tiger parts. So far the government has resisted those efforts, a move that seems to be in keeping with shifting public sentiment. The back-to-back tiger tragedies have been followed closely in China, spurring calls for greater legal protections for animals. Meanwhile, lawmakers have been drafting the country's first regulations on animal abuse. The government is considering, among other things, a ban on the consumption of dog and cat meat, a culinary specialty in southern China. Under the proposed...