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...bill could promote spamming by legitimizing it and giving it legal protection. America Online, which supports the Senate bill, has had great success shutting down spammers by using existing laws, including the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and state computer-trespass statutes. "We're for anything that will lessen spam," says Tricia Primrose, an AOL spokeswoman...
That didn't lessen the embarrassment when two East African crowned cranes died during the final weeks of preparation for the park's April 22 grand opening. Both times one of the birds darted beneath an open-air tram on the Kilimanjaro Safari ride and was killed. Disney officials called the deaths "unfortunate accidents," but the remaining cranes were moved to a location near a walking trail, and the trams were outfitted with additional mirrors to improve visibility for drivers...
Those three teams are virtually assured of a berth already, which would lessen the implication of those losses...
...always be large. What the squirrels show is that if you and I can get together--our attention not on our concerns of the moment but on the concerns of an entity other than ourselves--it is possible to close the rift, to end the reign of impersonality, to lessen the alienation...
Look out, and look away from self. That is the lesson of the squirrel. I accept the criticism that what I say might work on paper but not in the real world. Still, I ask, does that lessen its truth...