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...support on any U.N. action. "But is it actually within his authority to make that promise?" asks Manouchehr Takin of the Centre for Global Energy Studies. "Iraq is a sovereign state, and just because Saddam was in power when these deals were made doesn't mean they're invalid." Yet Takin believes that after any war with Iraq, U.S. firms would be keen to fight for new deals and renegotiate old ones. And no one is taking bets on who would win that war. THE RACING BUSINESS Reinventing The Formula Fast racehorses are handicapped - given extra weight to carry...
Rhonda Bassel-Duby, a molecular biologist at UT-Southwestern who collaborated on the study, said that the findings may have implications for invalid patients whose inactivity has led to muscle atrophy...
...last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix? The fledgling Phoenix racing team, which was barred from participating by FIA, Formula One's ruling body. FIA told Phoenix, which came into being after purchasing certain assets from the now-defunct Prost team for a reported $3.5 million, that its entry was invalid because the group had not bought the "right to compete." The cost for Phoenix to qualify in time for the next Formula One season? $48 million. No such participatory problems for Mike Tyson. In spite of the boxer's troubled past, authorities in Washington, D.C. voted to give Tyson...
Indeed, the ballot order did change in the recount as officials found some ballots that had previously been considered invalid. Some voters had tried to erase or reorder votes and others had listed numbers instead of filling in the bubbles on the ballots...
...feel pain, admittedly—but if you give me enough drugs, neither can I. Do we excuse a murderer who first administers a merciful dose of morphine? An embryo can’t survive on its own, doubtless—but neither can a toddler or an elderly invalid. Are they fair game for scientific research? An embryo is assuredly incapable of reason—but so is any newborn. Do we countenance infanticide...