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...part, is house hunting in the Detroit suburbs. "I am learning that ultimately a company is people, nothing else, and I can handle both sides," he says. In fact, he ran a Mercedes truck subsidiary in Euclid, Ohio, during the 1980s. "I know when to tell the Germans to loosen up and when to tell the Americans, 'Look, we made a decision on Monday--wouldn't it be nice if it sticks on Tuesday?' If it is managed well, then we will be so much better than all the others...
...just buy it off the street. You can?t prove anything about the drug without some standardization, which means utilizing pure research-grade samples." There is evidence, for example, that marijuana can help fight glaucoma and help stem the nausea associated with chemotherapy. The new HHS policy will loosen the rules enough to make top-grade marijuana available without hassles to study these and other possible benefits -- and to help ensure that those studies stay within the confines of the nation's top research labs...
...anti-gun forces took some energy from public outrage over the shootings. California's assembly approved a bill designed to limit handgun sales. The gun lobby in Colorado had been expecting to get passage of three bills (to loosen restrictions on concealed-weapons permits, to ban local lawsuits against manufacturers and to pre-empt local ordinances on firearms). State legislators quickly withdrew two of them, and Governor Bill Owens promised to veto the third. Earlier in April, Missouri voters defeated a referendum to lift a constitutional ban on concealed weapons. So far this year, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska have...
...response to the shootings, many state legislatures, including Colorado's, have suspended or dropped legislation that would loosen current gun controls. These actions are fitting both in the sense that America is in desperate need of more serious gun control and in the context of the recent shooting and its effect on the sense of safety in communities around the country...
...hard could this be? I picked up the wrench and started to loosen the bolts. I loosened and loosened, and it only took me about five minutes to realize that there are plastic covers on each of the bolts. Damn plastic covers...