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While the study does not draw any conclusions as to why firearm homicides are so much higher in the United States, according to Hemenway the data does suggest that the country’s comparatively lax gun laws could be a cause...
...work from the ones that are useless or actively harmful. Yet the very nature of human testing involves risk; nobody can tell in advance whether a new medicine carries unforeseen dangers. And so clinicians are forced to walk an ethical and scientific tightrope. Make the rules protecting patients too lax, and subjects will suffer and even die needlessly. Make them too strict, and lifesaving medications won't make it out of the lab quickly enough to help the people who need them most...
Over the past few years, the U.S. tax system has started to play Robin Hood in reverse. The availability of new tax shelters, combined with lax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has let the rich and dishonest evade their obligations and increase the burden on the American public. Without drastic reform, tax loopholes and outright evasion will create a vast paid subsidy for the wealthy—or, to put it another way, a huge hidden tax on everyone else...
...Vatican has long dismissed all the fuss as "an American problem," as if it plagued no other countries. In the corridors of Rome, prelates disparage the "litigious" nature of U.S. society and blame abusive priests on lax American sexual mores. Complains a Vatican official: "In America there is too much reliance on modern psychology in place of the church's traditional wisdom." Officials say the Pope is greatly pained by the crisis in the U.S. church. But that doesn't mean he is ready or able to confront such an explosive issue. The papacy hates to bend to outside pressure...
...hosting a party for Sarah Brady, the author, with Merrill McLoughlin, of "A Good Fight" (PublicAffairs; April 2). The scene in the Blue Smoke's Jazz Standard Club was pure Arkansas: dark and smoky, with such down-home dishes as BBQ pork and giant onion rings, beer and seemingly lax security. Jim Brady, Sarah Brady's husband, sat out in the audience in his wheelchair, eating ribs. Brady had been incapacitated in the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Following that, Sarah became a leading gun-control advocate...