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Most users don't have access to DanceSafe, which operates in only eight cities. But as demand has grown, the incentive to manufacture fake e has also escalated, especially for one-time raves full of teens who won't see the dealer again. Established dealers, by contrast, operate under the opposite incentive. A Miami dealer who goes by the name "Top Dog" told TIME he obtains MDMA test kits from a connection on the police force. "If [the pills] are no good," he says, customers "won't want to buy from you anymore." It's business sense...
...contrast, irrational to forbid capital punishment. One can support such a course only, ultimately, on unprovable and somewhat vaporous grounds - in the name, perhaps, of a principle of moral evolution, a kind of hope...
...sticks and stones he left to surrogates, like League of Conservation Voters president Deb Callahan, who bashed Bush as being "more James Watt than Teddy Roosevelt" while Gore stood on the stage in silence (he did look a little uncomfortable). Other surrogates were unapologetic. "If the League... wants to contrast the mess in Texas with Al Gore's pro-family, pro-environment record, that's their decision," shrugged Gore spokesman Chris Lehane...
...from all walks of life (a larger selection edited by Carroll will be published as a book next May by Scribner's), the correspondence included here suggests a larger historical pattern: soldiers enlisted in the two World Wars are generally upbeat and optimistic, brimming with good-natured confidence. By contrast the G.I.s of the cold war, fighting in Korea and Vietnam, write letters of doubt and confusion, unsure whether dying in a Chosin Reservoir crater or Mekong Delta rice paddy for Old Glory made practical sense. Fear of death, however, permeates them all, no matter in which bloodstained decade they...
...rest of the world. The main reason we're lagging is that in the early 1990s Europe and Asia adopted a common digital standard called Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) that lets overseas cell-phone users call seamlessly among 120 countries, from Sweden to Singapore. The U.S., by contrast, had several competing standards--slowing adoption of wireless technology and adding to the cost. America has also been held back by its telephonic success. Our land-line phones are so good that we've had much less incentive than other countries to switch to wireless...