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...getting? Some answers can be found in the FDA's updated Food Defect Action Levels list, which indicates limits for "natural or unavoidable" substances in processed food. While people might blanch at eating insects and | their excreta, many entomologists insist that the only harm is psychological. Some even contend that the government should allow more bugs in food so that crops can be grown with fewer pesticides...
...begin with, what exactly is "assassination"? Since the Executive Order offers no definition, presumably standard general concepts would apply. The favorite definition of Russell Bruemmer, former general counsel of the CIA, is "the premeditated killing of a specifically targeted individual for political purposes." He and others contend, however, that such killing is sometimes allowed under international...
Some experts further argue that an indirect hit on Saddam could be justified in situations short of general war. They contend that terrorism can be viewed as a species of armed attack, legitimizing self-defense in the form of military action against terrorists and their sponsors. That was the justification for the 1986 U.S. air raid against Libya, during which planes hit several places where Muammar Gaddafi was known to have lived. Planners insisted that they were not targeting Gaddafi -- that might have been a bit too close to assassination -- but aiming at terrorist command-and-control centers. If Gaddafi...
...students contend that the passage of Question 3--a sweeping tax rollback sponsored by the Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT)--would force the state to cut $25 million to $30 million from the budget of UMass/Amherst alone. The State Board of Regents says that it will have to cut the budget for public education 20 percent...
...been improperly inflated by the phony transactions with Silverado. After this sale, M.D.C. shares fell from $22 to below $1 for a time. Many M.D.C. officers and board members, including Brownstein, mysteriously managed to sell much of their personal M.D.C. stock at its peak price. The lawsuits also contend that Milken was the architect of a scheme in which M.D.C. sold junk bonds to San Diego's Imperial S&L, which eventually produced huge losses for the California thrift...