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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man will disappear from billboards, and by 2009, the FDA may ban nicotine altogether under a landmark, multibillion dollar settlement that will impose unprecedented regulations on America's tobacco industry. Under the agreement, tobacco companies will pay out $360 billion over 25 years into a settlement fund to finance public health campaigns and anti-smoking advertising, while disbursing $4 billion a year into a fund to pay damages in successful lawsuits brought by smokers. "We wanted to do something that would punish this industry for its past misconduct and we have done that...
...Alabama, 69% of those executed since 1976 were black. In Georgia the figure is 55%. Even though blacks are more likely than whites to be the victim of homicide, the overwhelming majority of capital cases involve crimes committed against people who are white. The disparity was attacked in a landmark 1987 case, McClesky v. Kemp. Warren McClesky, a black man convicted of killing a white police officer in Georgia, based his appeal on a study that showed killers of white people were four times as likely to get the death penalty as killers of nonwhites. That wasn't enough...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: On the eve of a landmark Supreme Court decision, the Clinton Administration has abandoned its gung-ho support for regulating Internet content, arguing instead that the industry should police itself. At issue is a law which would make distribution of "indecent material" over the Internet to minors a federal crime. The new policy, to be made public by President Clinton at an event on July 1 designed to promote Internet commerce, states that the existence of devices which allow parental monitoring of Internet use renders legislative regulation of the medium unneccessary, The New York Times reported. The Supreme...
...about 1.3 million households and businesses in Rhode Island and Massachusetts will have become pioneers in electric consumption as a result of landmark pacts that Rowe negotiated with each state. His achievement is the latest step in a process that began developing nearly two decades ago. As far back as the 1970s, independent producers started selling power to utilities; a 1992 federal law required utilities to open their lines free of charge to such wholesalers. The growing wholesale competition created a demand for retail freedom of choice...
WATCH TOWER: Parisian days and nights fly by on a 50-ton, 1,342-light sign at the second level of Monsieur Eiffel's iron landmark...