Word: maye
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...body with the power to overrule democratically elected governments on issues of environmental protection and labor rights. For example, environmentally motivated U.S. restrictions on importing shrimp caught with nets that endanger sea turtles have been overruled by the WTO, while laws against dumping low-cost steel in the U.S. may also be eliminated by the international body. Some of the more radical environmentalist groups, as well as conservatives such as Pat Buchanan, who traditionally oppose international organizations' having any jurisdiction over the U.S., want the organization disbanded. Others want to transform it to incorporate social and environmental concerns, charging that...
...need to know because we need to know: A new book hypothesizing that AIDS originated in a polio vaccine may reflect our discomfort with being unable to control our environment more than it provides any scientific breakthrough. British journalist Michael Hooper's "The River" amasses a wealth of circumstantial evidence supporting the theory that the HIV virus made the jump from animals to humans via an experimental batch of polio vaccine manufactured in part from chimpanzee tissue that may have been infected. "This theory is partially testable, because there are still some stocks of the oral polio vaccine in question...
Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment...
...Although many of them may be over the top, the demonstrators are tapping into something very real," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Obviously we need a body such as the WTO to regulate the international economy, but such a body needs to consider the social and environmental impact of economic growth. Decisions that will have a huge impact on the way we live now and in the future can't be taken simply on a business basis." While nongovernmental organizations and even some governments are raising some of those issues inside the talks, activists will maintain a steady barrage...
This ruling, which comes after extensive settlement negotiations, may mark the beginning of the end of a landmark case. Dow Corning filed for bankruptcy in 1995, after thousands of women filed lawsuits against the company, seeking damages for numerous illnesses allegedly brought on by their breast implants. Despite the stunning amounts of cash it compels the company to turn over, Tuesday's settlement is good news for Dow Corning - the plan allows it to pay back its creditors and return to business. Not just yet, though: The specifics of the bankruptcy ruling, to be released next week, could raise some...