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...presence in both the West Bank and Gaza and has tended to hire militants from other groups to carry out attacks in its name. But the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah also has an active presence in Gaza, where its operatives have helped Hamas and other groups develop roadside-bomb technology and Qassam rockets...
...Supreme Court’s passive endorsement of this sickening practice goes beyond its usual barbaric support for capital punishment. It serves as a tacit signal to death penalty hawks that it’s okay to develop calculated loopholes to traditional restrictions. And it is a silent nod of approval for a conception of the death penalty as an end in itself and as the cornerstone of a warped moral framework in which justice remains undone so long as the wrongdoer breathes...
...miss the opportunity? Ever since the 1920s, oil-shale pilot plants have been opening and closing in Colorado, reflecting the Federal Government's failure to develop a consistent energy policy. But in 1980, at long last, shale seemed poised for takeoff. Two traumatic Persian Gulf oil crises in the 1970s had sent oil prices zooming and had given rise to high hopes in Washington and the oil industry that shale would develop into a synthetic-fuel industry. To encourage domestic production, Congress enacted the synfuels tax credit and also created the Synthetic Fuels Corp. As envisioned by President Jimmy Carter...
Here's a reason to think twice about giving antibiotics to kids: researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that by age 7, children who received antibiotics such as penicillin in their first six months were 1.5 times as likely to develop allergies and more than twice as likely to develop asthma as kids who didn't get the drugs. Also at higher risk for allergies were children who were breast-fed for more than four months and those whose mothers had a history of allergies. The study followed 448 youngsters suffering allergies to pets, ragweed, grass...
...doubled over the past two years, to $62 million, and the future is so bright that Lush offered to buy Constantine's much bigger former employer, Body Shop International, which has more than 1,900 outlets in 50 countries. After spending much of the '80s working on contract to develop products for the Body Shop, Constantine parted ways before the company got pounded in the U.S. by cut-rate copycats like Limited Brands' Bath & Body Works. In 2001, around the time Body Shop founder Anita Roddick described her creation as a "dysfunctional coffin," Lush's takeover bid was flatly rejected...