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...discussions with the Saakashvili regime except regarding the terms of the democratically elected president’s resignation. She fails to recognize Russia’s profound military weakness (while invading Georgia, many of its officers were reduced to communciating on their personal cell phones) or the effect of the nation’s recent economic collapse (stock market down three quarters, reserves down half, currency value down a third, double-digit unemployment and inflation). NATO in fact has far more power over Russia than Ms. Bryson imagines. She attempts to impugn President Saakashvili’s democratic credentials, ignoring...
...while these results suggest that you might not even need the full-fledged needle-penetrating version to find relief, no physician is quite ready to recommend pricking yourself with toothpicks. "Further studies are going to have to tease out the relative magnitude of the placebo effect from the physiological effects of acupuncture," says Nahin. "But for patients, what the study tells you is that if you are having pain that is not being well managed by standard care, then acupuncture is a viable option...
...regulating handgun sales. The district court found the requirement unconstitutional but was overturned by the more liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The lower court decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1997, four years after the Brady Act passed. The ruling was, in effect, moot because a federal background database supplanted local background checks by the time the court ruled, but it left in place an important precedent on the limits of federal law - an issue that the new Montana law raises again...
...Montana law will go into effect on Oct. 1, and the ensuing legal battle will be long, perhaps three years or more, Halbrook says. Helmke expects the Brady Campaign to join the fight. The Printz decision was a 5-4 split with the majority opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, but this latest challenge could be heard by a court sitting in Obama's second term or his successor's, meaning it will likely be a court with a different lineup...
...lobbied for wider UN action. But moves to initiate a formal Security Council session on Sri Lanka have been thwarted by China and Russia. The government sees this effort to apply diplomatic pressure - through UN action or a debate at the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council - as, in effect, giving aid to the Tigers...