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...technology that the nine justices of the Supreme Court wrestled with last week was relatively crude: a heat-sensing gun pointed at a house in Florence, Ore., by federal agents on the lookout for homegrown marijuana. In 1992, a cop using the device had spotted a lot of excess heat coming off high-intensity grow lights. Police searched the house, found more than 100 plants and arrested one of its occupants--a small-time marijuana grower named Danny Kyllo. Kyllo appealed the case all the way to the highest court, arguing that by using infrared technology to pry into...
...shocked we are, and now the Street is being strapped down for another public flogging. It happens after every period of excess, and little good comes from it. In the merger-crazed '80s, Boesky and junk-bond king Milken served time for their roles in insider trading scandals. Yet insider trading thrives. Stocks still jump a day or two ahead of major corporate announcements...
...awaited his death. In an age when any utterance of disloyalty to the Crown could be and was severely punished, Blake was fearless in expressing his views. His sympathies flew to the weak and the downtrodden. He was always on the side of liberty and instinct. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he wrote in the Proverbs of Hell. And also: "Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." (The latter sounds more like Sade than the gentle poet of Lambeth, who wouldn't have hurt a hair on a child's head...
...ironic that many herbally enhanced foods contain such small amounts of their active ingredients that they probably don't have any biological effect at all. What they do have plenty of, however, is excess calories, which hardly seems healthy or worth the added cost. So while the FDA and the food manufacturers duke it out over herbal additives, do yourself a favor and stock up on the true, original health foods: tomatoes, broccoli, asparagus, apples, pears and other fruits and vegetables...
...company's CEO, Mike Wood, isn't troubled by making money off a manufacturer's misfortune. "When you have a headache, the aspirin is not taking advantage of you," he says. By helping clear excess inventories more quickly, "this kind of service could contribute to a turnaround." And if it does, Wood is well placed to continue making money during an economic expansion, when higher unit prices for goods sold on his site would offset any decline in excess-inventory volume...