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...Another factor impels Nixon to take on a heavy load of campaign duties. As Vice-President, he has no direct control or influence over state party organizations. Such control is very important in any national political convention, as Senator Knowland, currently the strongest threat to Nixon’s presidential hopes, has realized by running for the California governorship this fall. The most important method by which Nixon can build up personal obligations and loyalty among Republican state committees is to accept numerous campaign speaking dates in the various states. But a heavy speech schedule lures him into the dangers...
...clock is ticking. The U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year. And the American negotiators have only until November to pursue the Bush administration's agenda without having to factor in the plans of a new president...
Bugs can be tasty too--Gordon swears by his white chocolate and waxworm cookies--but Americans first need to overcome the "eww" factor. We think bugs are dirty, disease-laden or otherwise dangerous to eat--though they're not, as long as you cook them properly, are not allergic to shellfish (which, like insects, are arthropods) and aren't collecting bugs from fields that have been hit with pesticides. We're revolted by their alien appearance, but then again, lobster could hardly be described as cute and cuddly. And food taboos are not eternal; think of how unlikely it would...
Colorado State's Grandin, who helped refine standards for humane livestock slaughter, says Americans have an "ick" factor when it comes to the idea of horseflesh, equating it, she says "killing and eating pets." But, Grandin argues, "the problem is, these are 800- to 1,200-pound pets. When they shut down those plants, I said we've got to avoid alternatives worse than slaughter. But we have not, and all my worse nightmares have come true...
...number of court battles. Most prominent has been the case of Lou Ann and Scott Mullen of Lexington, Texas, who filed suit in April to adopt two black brothers, ages 2 and 6, whom they have raised since infancy. Though Texas law bars race from being the determining factor in adoption, the Mullens charge that caseworkers delayed the adoption in order to seek an African-American home. Their case is bolstered by a separate class action against the state of Texas, filed jointly by lawyers at the conservative Institute for Justice in Washington and three liberal Harvard law professors--Elizabeth...