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...quarters downright horrified when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that crimes by some juveniles and mentally retarded people may be punishable by death. By a 5-to-4 vote, the high court ruled in a pair of decisions that the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" does not forbid the execution of youths who commit crimes at 16 or 17 years of age, nor does it automatically prohibit death sentences for the retarded. "By executing the retarded and people who aren't old enough to vote or serve in & the Army," said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz...
...Eastern way of life. My grandmother, you see, still wages the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War, if you weren't sure), and she couldn't stand the fact that I might go to the H-school and become or worse yet, date, a "blue-bellied Yankee." (Heaven forbid.) No one was really standing around giving me lessons in how to become an "effite Easterner," but there were still those who thought the concept of Texas was something suitable only for Westerns and Friday afternoon re-runs of Ewing family backstabbing...
...major conservation issue by imposing a ban on ivory imports into the U.S. The move came just four days after a consortium of conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International, called for that kind of action, and it made the U.S. the first nation to forbid imports of both raw and finished ivory. The ban, says Bohlen, "sends a very clear message to the ivory poachers that the game is over...
...Species that would make the ivory trade illegal worldwide. The amendment is expected to be approved at an October meeting in Geneva and to go into effect next January. But between now and then, conservationists contend, poachers may go on a rampage, killing elephants wholesale, so nations should unilaterally forbid imports right away. President Bush bought that argument, and by week's end the twelve-nation European Community had followed with...
...quiet of mountain lakes and peaceful beaches. As a result, several states and localities have passed legislation in recent years regulating where and by whom the motorized skis may be used. Many have set the minimum age for riders at 14, require use of a life jacket and forbid riding at night. In Florida, where eleven deaths have occurred since 1987, the state plans to outlaw such reckless maneuvers as weaving through powerboat traffic. Local authorities in Arizona and Oregon have restricted the use of personal watercraft to designated areas on certain lakes. New Hampshire has banned the craft entirely...