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...Some argue that the stream of violence is abetted by lax or nonexistent gun laws. Others argue the current laws are just fine, thanks, it's just that someone needs to enforce them. Still others insist that while laws are a critical tool for cutting down on juvenile gun violence, we need to place more emphasis on identifying and helping the kids who eventually turn guns on their classmates and, sometimes, themselves. Then, of course, there are cries for parental responsibility...
...issues raised by the trial go far beyond the 39 drug companies involved in the suit. The case highlights fundamental questions over to what extent the profit principle and the free market should apply to the field of medicine. The drug companies insist that without protected patents and the ability to turn a handsome profit, they would have no incentive to make the capital outlays required to develop new drugs. Critics will argue, of course, that the scale of the profit requires some explanation: After all, if an Indian company is able to supply the AIDS-drug cocktail...
...pharmaceutical corporations insist that scientific innovation cannot occur in the absence of a profit motive. And given the experience of socialism, it's a fair challenge. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe was in the final analysis a product of its stagnation. The absence of a market mechanism, Mikhail Gorbachev argued in his book "Perestroika," meant that planned economies were fundamentally lacking an engine for economic innovation, and were therefore doomed to stagnation...
...Russians cannot keep up with American technology. And they fear that an American missile shield will render obsolete their last remnant of greatness: their monster, nuclear-tipped missiles. So they insist that we adhere to a 1972 treaty signed with the defunct Soviet Union that prohibited either side from developing missile defenses. That the treaty is obsolete--it long predates the world of rogue states racing to acquire missile-launched weapons of mass destruction--does not concern the Russians. Withdraw from the treaty, they said, and you have destroyed the "strategic stability" on which the peace of the world depends...
...Census Bureau made Evans' life a whole lot easier, advising the secretary in no uncertain terms to reject any revised numbers. There is no evidence, the bureau's director told Evans, that adjusted figures would be any more accurate than the original numbers. Evans' final verdict, his aides insist, is not set in stone - and until it is, civil rights leaders and Democrats will pepper his office with statements opposing the bureau's recommendation...