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...goal, says spokeswoman Lisa Erk, "is systemic social change." This means forming a partnership between colleges and their communties to get bars off campus, halt two-for-one drink specials and increase alcohol-free social options. Students, of course, will complain (at Wisconsin the chancellor is sometimes called the "booze cop"). And so might townspeople: why can?t a responsible drinker enjoy a beer or two at the football game, or get a discount for stopping by at happy hour? That's what happens when you craft policy to deal with the worst offenders. The innocents have to sacrifice...
...Because of the proximity of its Catholic and Protestant residents, Ardoyne has been a flashpoint throughout a tense summer in which the Northern Ireland peace process ground to a halt. Protestant residents have vowed to stop the girls passing through their neighborhood in order to protest alleged Republican attacks. Police say extremist paramilitaries from both sides of the sectarian divide are active in the area. But the scale of the violence and hatred in Ardoyne has now prompted the leaders of most Loyalist parties to condemn the protestors...
...their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign infection, the agency could halt a stem-cell procedure if it felt the human patient was at risk of getting an animal virus. The news sparked renewed calls for the President to loosen his policy and allow further harvesting from embryos, this time without using animal tissue in the Petri dish. Senator John Kerry warns...
...other country's mines. Last year, 5,300 people perished, according to government statistics, and independent analysts say that figure represents only a fraction of all deaths. Embarrassed by its appalling safety record, China's Cabinet finally took action in mid-June, ordering all small state-owned mines to halt production for safety checks and calling for intensified raids against illegal mines, such as the one in Guizhou province that claimed Zhang's husband. Last week, Premier Zhu Rongji visited that desperately poor province to tout the program's success and report that 5,117 small coal mines have been...
...when he killed a 63-year-old man in a carjacking attempt; in Huntsville, Texas. Though neither Governor Rick Perry nor the U.S. Supreme Court (in a rare 3-to-3 vote, with three Justices abstaining because they know the victim's son, a federal judge) would halt the execution amid protest against applying the death penalty to teens, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a reprieve four hours before his scheduled death...