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...best-performing stock of 2004, more than quadrupling in price--despite the emergence of a potentially chilling scandal in late November: Amnesty International issued a 93-page report detailing 74 deaths in the U.S. and Canada of people who had been hit with a Taser, and calling for a moratorium on the weapons until more independent medical-safety studies were conducted. Yet after a brief stall, Taser's stock continued its upward climb, hitting an all-time high...
...Ituri region. U.N. officials said the peacekeepers were fired on first and acted in self-defense. The militia was thought to be responsible for slaying nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers a week earlier. More Brinkmanship NORTH KOREA The government announced that it no longer felt bound by a self-imposed 1999 moratorium on long-range missile testing, and blamed the "hostile policy" of the U.S. toward Pyongyang for compelling it to boost its "self-defensive nuclear arsenal." The move came amid ongoing efforts to persuade North Korea to rejoin six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear standoff with Washington. MEANWHILE...
THERE WERE 59 EXECUTIONS LAST YEAR--THE LOWEST NUMBER SINCE 1996. IS THAT HOPEFUL? Yes, very. Over the last five years, death sentences have declined by 50%. The turning point was 2000 when [Illinois] Governor Ryan had the courage to do a moratorium. In North Carolina, they are close to a moratorium. In New Mexico, they are close to repealing it. I can see the difference on the road tour...
Indeed, none of the affected nations are eager to send tsunami orphans abroad. Consulates, adoption agencies and relief organizations in Europe and across the U.S. have fielded hundreds of inquiries from people interested in adopting tsunami victims. The U.S. State Department, for its part, has placed a moratorium on adoptions of tsunami survivors by U.S. citizens. For one thing, not all the displaced children are necessarily orphans. Some newly single parents may have dropped off their kids at shelters as they surveyed the ruins of their houses and lives. Other parents may still be alive but were separated from their...
...March 2003, the organization announced a moratorium on enforcing the guideline, and Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities continued to offer single-choice early action. Caruso said that Saturday’s vote puts the institutions in “full compliance...