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Moreover, many of the newer Senators have never known what it is like to be in the minority. They have little patience for arcane traditions that can allow the objections of even a single Senator to bring the place to a halt. "The institution is important, but the future of the country is what we're here for," said South Carolina freshman Jim DeMint at a Capitol Hill news conference to express support for Bush's judicial nominees. Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson recalled that when he was elected to the Senate last year, his House colleagues joked that he would...
...years ago, big private banks were not featured on environmentalists' hit lists. Activists focused on large corporate polluters in the oil and timber industries. Over time, though, green groups have realized that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector more than any other has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global-finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial...
...still unproven beyond the lab. Altorki and Keresztes had to halt my study when the Vioxx news broke. When they decided to resume, patients like me had to decide whether to continue and risk heart attack or stroke down the road. The doctors no longer require new subjects to enroll for a full two years, to track long-term survival--the heart danger seemed to kick in after about 18 months--but they are offering it as an option. Anyone who re-upped had to sign a revised waiver specifically advising them of the possible increased risk. On paper that...
...summer of 2003, leaders of the region stopped polio inoculations after rumors spread that the vaccine could transmit AIDS and render girls infertile. It was a bad time--and a very bad place--to halt vaccines. There are now 35 million Nigerian kids under age 5, and 20% have no polio vaccinations. Says Oliver Rosenbauer, spokesman for WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative: "That's a lot of breathing space for the poliovirus to survive...
...committees. The philosophy behind this decision is sound—all student representatives, regardless of their committee affiliations, should have a say on legislation that affects the entire Harvard student body. But this “say” shouldn’t grind UC floor debates to a halt. The UCRC’s recommendation to raise to two-thirds the number of votes required for consideration of certain amendments addresses this balance. Our only concern is that the two-thirds threshold (up from one-third) is too high; the new requirement will eliminate the specter of one committee...