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...Korean assistance - a claim that was widely viewed through the prism of false U.S. claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the Bush Administration's animus toward Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime over its support for Hizballah and Palestinian radical groups, as well as its failure to curb jihadist insurgents crossing into Iraq...
...their fights - would require roomier confinements for farm animals, mainly chickens. Animal rights groups are adamant these changes be made for the animals' well-being and health; opponents say these changes are costly and would put farmers out of business. Propositions 7 and 10 are initiatives that would curb greenhouse gas emissions from utilities and vehicles. Environmentalists and others have opposed these initiatives, saying they are gravely flawed and costly. By far the most heated is Proposition 8, which would amend the California Constitution to ban same-sex couples from marriage. Proposition 8 protests which have sprung up throughout Northern...
...neither likely nor realistic to expect the television and movie industries to curb the amount of sexual content in their products. That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics created the Media Matters campaign more than a decade ago to promote awareness within the industry of how influential its TV shows and movies are to youngsters and to alert parents to the critical role they play in monitoring and mediating what their children watch. Having ammunition in the form of a study-based association such as Chandra documented just gives the message more impact...
...ripe for serious introspection. My reflection that day was absorbed by one simple and painfully obvious realization: something was terribly, terribly wrong with this picture.Perhaps it was the heavy, unwieldy sign that concealed more than half of my body, or the fact that I was teetering on a curb and frantically waving at oncoming traffic. Perhaps it was the fact that my arms had begun to feel like two throbbing, slightly numb vestigial appendages, or that I was beginning to see spots in the heat. Mostly, it was one persistent little number that had been pulsing in my head...
...damage from last Thursday's bomb blast in downtown Zagreb that killed Ivo Pukanic, one of Croatia's top media moguls, and his advertising manager, Niko Franic, will not be confined to the casualties. The attack has cast doubt over whether Croatia can curb rampant corruption and organized crime and achieve its goal of joining the European Union next year...