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...Hampshire's bureau of emergency management. "But there's been a lot of added security there. If you're a terrorist, you may say, Why waste your time in New York City when you can make a hell of a mess in Maryland or Delaware or, God forbid, Portsmouth, New Hampshire?" Says Flynn: "Everybody's become Tom Clancy...
...Connect students with traditional ways of life by allowing them to use fireplaces in dorm rooms. Better yet, house them all in dorm rooms equipped with fireplaces and then suddenly forbid all fireplace use. In the dead of winter, shivering and cold, students will stare longingly at the empty corner of their rooms where for decades passed fellow undergraduates once curled up for warmth. Ah, traditions! They produce such pleasant memories...
...lifesaving grafts has been known to find its way into the hands of plastic surgeons who use it for mere lip plumping. Tissue banks that receive a family's consent to harvest heart valves could take marketable bones or tendons along with them if the agreement doesn't specifically forbid...
...just one proposed gay-marriage amendment before Congress. Introduced last year by Representative Marilyn Musgrave and Senator Wayne Allard, both Republicans of Colorado, it would define marriage as "the union of a man and a woman." Debate is heating up about whether the wording of their measure would also forbid civil unions, which the President said last week states should be permitted to perform. Because of language in its second sentence saying that neither states nor the Federal Government can be required to confer upon unmarried couples marital status "or the legal incidents thereof," many legal scholars say the amendment...
Admittedly, city officials are apprehensive about violating strict historical preservation requirements that forbid adding more lighting. But since three of the last assault victims near the Common have been Cantabridgians, city officials and residents could hardly disagree that they have much to gain from lighting improvements...