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CONTEXT Los Angeles is considering a two-year moratorium on new fast-food stores in South L.A. It's not the only city cracking down on fatty foods: Berkeley and Arcata, Calif., limit greasy chains, while certain districts of Port Jefferson, N.Y.; Concord, Mass.; and Calistoga, Calif., ban them entirely. But critics say L.A. is ignoring a bigger issue: poverty. About 28% of its residents are poor, and fast food is a cheap dinner...
...fact, as no provision for a unilateral moratorium was built into the CFE treaty, Russia's action amounts to non-compliance, strictly speaking. It might indeed be designed for domestic consumption. Or it might be just an act of blackmail in Putin's new brinkmanship with the U.S. But it also might be serious water testing on his part to see how far he can stretch his empire-building muscle and get away with...
...have a master's degree in economics and want to work in the U.S. What is your stance on aspiring legal immigrants like me? -Tarun Kumar, BIELEFELD, GERMANYI believe we should have a moratorium on all immigration--legal or not--for at least three years. We have to have an immigration time-out, I think, in order to assimilate the people who have come here already...
...Also, while India has declared a unilateral moratorium on further testing, Delhi wants to reserve the right to conduct further weapons tests should it choose to, and it wants the U.S. to guarantee that its nuclear fuel supplies from American companies are not conditional on India's refraining from testing. But U.S. negotiators want Delhi to agree to a test ban, and to make the fuel supply conditional on adhering to that...
...state has made some reforms to try and ensure that people don't end up wrongly convicted and sentenced for crimes they didn't commit - the original impetus for Ryan's moratorium. In addition to instituting more court oversight in the last few years, it has provided better training for lawyers in capital cases, more stringent guidelines for what qualifies for death, and put a closer watch on the police investigating and prosecutors trying these cases. Perhaps most importantly, it has set up a fund to even the field in cases that have long favored the deep pockets...