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...This complaint is entirely legitimate. However, in the case of text messaging, the temptation is so insidious that people cannot be fully trusted to decide for themselves whether it is safe to text behind the wheel. Besides, with so many lives at stake, is it really that much trouble to just pull over...
Tenenbaum’s case has emerged as a symbolic struggle between those who hope to see an open internet, unfettered by copyright constraints, and conservative industry groups whose revenues have been decimated as a result of file-sharing networks...
...case of the Station Fire, the U.S. Department of Forestry will pick up a majority of the tab because more than 90% of the fire is in the Angeles National Forest. "One of the ways the federal government is supporting the state and local government in the Station Fire effort is that the U.S. Forest Service is providing over 1,600 of the 4,800 personnel fighting the fire," says Forest Service spokesman Caleb Weaver...
...comparison with China is inevitable. Many U.S. businesses have seen Japan's companies as rivals in international and American markets. But in the case of China, the business relationship is quite different. China does not yet have many obvious competitors to U.S firms, though one day it will. At present, not only is China itself a huge and growing market for American firms, but those businesses increasingly source their goods in China - in a way that few have in Japan. That has created a "thickness" to the economic relationship with China of a sort that has not been so marked...
...case has reinvigorated support for H.R. 1623, the "International Megan's law," which Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, introduced in March 2009. If passed, the bill would alert officials abroad when U.S. sex offenders intend to travel and would encourage other countries to keep sex-offender lists and notify American officials about offenders' U.S. travel plans. U.S. law can grab American predators overseas. Sporich, along with Ronald Boyajian, 49, and Erik Peeters, 41, were charged under the Protect Act, which was enacted six years ago to strengthen federal laws related to predatory crimes committed outside...