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Although drug use is perhaps morally reprehensible, it should be legalized. Making drug possession criminal is a hydra, begetting yet more crime. Through legalization, huge savings can be realized from crime reduction. Revenues gleaned from taxing legal profits can be used for antidrug research, and standardized products will reduce drug deaths. Governments formerly beneath the heel of drug cartels can once again begin to function for their own constituents. DONALD H. RUDICK, M.D. St. Marys...
...could be legs and a longer one that might be a trunk. But where's the tail? Or the tusks? Or the ears? On the other hand, it is a spitting image compared with "the tree that is a forest," another banyan, meant to be some sort of arboreal Hydra. Frankly, it's going to take hallucinations of Herculean proportions to get that...
...Simputer is the result of more than two years of R. and D. conducted and funded by Simputer Trust, a hydra-headed company led by the Bangalore Seven?four Indian Institute of Science professors and three engineers from Encore, an Indian software company. In 1998, New Delhi recruited them to explore ways of bridging the digital divide. Importing hardware would be too expensive, they figured, and existing operating systems too complex, especially for the illiterate. "Can we think beyond the PC?" Vinay Deshpande, Encore ceo, asked the team...
That's when Arafat decided to marshal his Tanzim forces--maybe 2,000 street enforcers armed with automatic weapons and more or less loyal to his Fatah wing of the hydra-headed Palestinian cause--to prepare for an appropriate opportunity. Arafat, the Tanzim bosses say, explicitly warned them that clashes would come because Israel "wanted" to spark violence. It is tough to draw a solid line between Arafat's meetings and last week's violence. The Tanzim, to be sure, has its own agenda...
...World Bank are not, as some have charged, merely two heads of a single conspiratorial hydra; the former is charged with preventing global financial crises, while the latter's mission is to eradicate poverty worldwide. There are, of course, legitimate grievances with the restructuring plans frequently imposed by the IMF, and the World Bank has funded a number of expensive development projects of questionable environmental or social value. Furthermore, the debt resulting from loans by both institutions only adds to the crushing debt burden on developing nations. In general, however, it is hard to disagree with the statement of Michael...