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...lack of military lawyers could increase the likelihood of war violations by soldiers and unacceptable civilian collateral damage during military operations,” the veterans’ groups argued...
...likelihood, when you have multiple people working on a shared objective—a committee working in a collaborative group—you always reach a point where not every single person will be fully satisfied with the outcome,” she said. “My own preference is to try to continue to work within the organization to improve the outcomes rather than to pull back...
...scheme of 18 regional caucuses--a plan hatched in November without the U.N. in the room. But Shi'ites are holding out for direct elections, and the Iraqi Governing Council suggests that it expand from 25 to 125 members so it could stay around a while longer, though the likelihood of the Council suddenly being able to agree on anything would probably not be enhanced by inflating it fivefold...
...Cash-strapped state and local governments are looking for relief in a logical place," says Representative Jo Ann Emerson, a Missouri Republican. Further fueling the states' animosity toward the feds, the FDA has threatened legal action against state and local governments that pursue the Canadian option, thereby increasing the likelihood of another congressional showdown...
...through contact with chicken feces, rise considerably. In humans, the virus is more likely to swap proteins with a human influenza virus and acquire greater infectiousness and enhanced pathogenicity. The result, researchers fear, could be a highly contagious flu bug with a mortality rate of one in three. The likelihood of such a shape shift is hard to quantify, but it is believed that previous pandemics, in 1918 and in 1968, were the result of this sort of gene swapping among different viral strains...