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...collective bargaining agreement provides for a uniform contract that sets employment terms for all players. A player and team cannot change it except to increase the minimum salary or to add "special covenants that contain an actual or potential benefit to the player," explains Clark Griffith, a lawyer and sports law professor in Minneapolis, Minn. Bonds would obviously not benefit from either an out-clause for indictments or a waiver of the right to challenge a Giants decision, so both provisions would seem unenforceable...
...created to prevent terrorists from entering the country during the second Intifada when 1,000 Israelis were killed between 2000 and 2004. “President Carter’s book has been met with controversy and criticism by top scholars who consider it to lack objectivity and to contain factual errors, omissions, and plagiarism,” Stern said in a statement sent via e-mail. “Writing a book which omits facts and contains incorrect information is detrimental to the goal of achieving peace and understanding between the Israelis and Palestinians.” She noted...
...support arguments that research involving human embryonic stem cells is unnecessary.” “On the contrary, we assert that human embryonic stem cells hold great promise to find new treatments and cures for diseases,” the researchers wrote. The DPC publication cited research contained in an August 2005 Science article in which the Harvard researchers discovered a method for “reprogramming” adult cells into embryonic stem cells by fusing an adult and embryonic cell together to form a new hybrid cell with the characteristics of an embryonic stem cell...
...alcohol, cigarettes, or even sugars. However, there is an important distinction between these products and trans fats, namely that consumers can weigh the risks of the former with their benefits, whereas trans fats provide no benefits, only risks. Furthermore, restaurant patrons are often unaware that their meal even contains trans fat. Simply labeling foods that contain trans fats is near impossible to regulate in restaurants, where ingredients are not usually listed...
...what she called "the liberty and sovereignty of Quebec" after meeting with the head of the separatist Parti Québecois. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded with a brusque reminder that meddling in domestic affairs was "inappropriate for a foreign leader," and Sarkozy's camp could hardly contain its tut-tutting over Royal's penchant for being "extremely lightweight on important and sensitive subjects," as defense minister Mich?le Alliot-Marie...