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...couple of humble amphibians, the Pacific giant salamander and the tailed frog. While Coho salmon still spawn in Headwaters streams, stocks of this once plentiful game fish have crashed so sharply off California -- in part because of logging erosion -- that all sport and commercial fishing was banned recently. Environmentalists gripe that wildlife-survey regulations are a joke because logging companies do their own surveys. But regulations have slowed log production, and Pacific has fought back. In 1990 the company reamed a broad, mile-and-a-half corridor into the middle of the Headwaters forest and called it, with a wink...
Furthermore, the major "privacy violation" gripe that has spewed out of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard since the card keys were introduced last year is not at all convincing. While students might not like the fact that the University can check its records to see when they come and go, this system will probably help track down troublemakers and also serve as a deterrent to crime. The card keys' benefits to safety outweigh their costs to privacy...
...CAPTION: Gripe, Gripe, Gripe...
That is not my only concern with the possibility of nominating a senator to the post of Supreme Court justice. I have a gripe against politicians sui generis (Latin and the law go well together) being nominated to our nation's highest court...
Washington -- U.S. workers often gripe that illegal aliens are taking their jobs -- and now that complaint is being made by convicts. Federal Prison Industries, a Justice Department unit that employs 16,000 federal prisoners (some make furniture for $1 an hour), told TIME that 4,500 of its workers -- about 28% -- are aliens. Inmates believe that many, if not most, are in this country illegally. Federal law prohibits the "knowing" employment of such workers, but a lawyer for FPI says it doesn't ask inmates if they're in the U.S. illegally...