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...future goals in table tennis, “I want to keep improving. We play in college a lot more than I played at home, but now that I have competitive teammates and a good environment to play in, I hope to continue doing well and just have fun playing the sport...
...avoid it a criminal act. (The social-media companies themselves are not targets of the bill, just their Mexican users; Twitter and Facebook have warned their users to obey Mexican law.) The bill's sponsor, Norberto Nazario, says he wants to create an online police force that would keep abreast of the ways drug cartels and kidnapping rings are using the Internet for crime. He adds that sharing information about the actions of police should be illegal, especially during the country's fierce drug...
...front line is Palm Beach County, just north of Broward County. That county had 372 suspected overdose deaths from legal pain pills in 2009, up from 248 in 2005, according to published reports. Alarmed by the spread of the clinics, Palm Beach County commissioners just passed a moratorium to keep new clinics from opening while officials try to hammer out a solution. Other local governments are passing similar moratoriums. A commissioner in one city, Delray Beach, wants to require patients to be fingerprinted when they pick up their pills, for better monitoring. (See how to prevent illness...
...chronic neck pain stemming from a forklift injury but cannot get the medicine he needs anywhere near his home. He won't divulge what he is prescribed. "I'd rather not say, but it's helping me," he says. "I'm not a junkie." The medicine allows him to keep working as an excavator, he says. "They help people that can't get medication that they need," he says. "Thank God there are places like this." Though he agrees that some people take advantage of the clinics, efforts to shut them down are misguided, he says, and pain medication...
...secret police. Under the German constitution, the state now has a special responsibility to protect the privacy of its citizens. Germans' privacy rights have been strengthened even further by some recent high-profile court rulings. In March, for example, the constitutional court overturned a law that allowed authorities to keep data on phone calls and e-mails for six months to help fight terrorism and crime. The court said the storage of data could create a "threatening feeling of being under observation." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...