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...nonapproved GM corn. In the U.S., GM strains are mixed with ordinary strains, so the country's entire corn export to Europe was effectively outlawed. "Until we have new rules, we don't want new substances released," says Jurgen Trittin, Germany's Environment Minister. "It's a de facto moratorium...
...with patches of plain, old-fashioned corn so that not all pests become resistant. But these efforts haven't silenced critics, especially in Britain, where a noisy debate is raging over what the London tabloids like to call "Frankenstein foods." Last week the British Medical Association called for a moratorium on commercial planting of all transgenic crops until scientists agree on their safety. In India, Monsanto is running into a p.r. buzz saw in its efforts to introduce a Bt cotton called Bollgard--even as it wrestles with continuing protests over its stalled plans to include in its new crops...
...fair application of the ultimate punishment are rising too. The reason: Of the 3,600 inmates on death row, 42 percent are black. On Thursday, in a dramatic indication of how seriously the worries have grown, the Nebraska state legislature voted 27 to 21 to impose a two-year moratorium on executions in the state to allow time to study the role of race and socioeconomic factors on capital punishment sentencing. Pro-death penalty Governor Mike Johanns must decide whether to sign the bill...
Seven weeks to go before the National Gambling Impact Study Commission is supposed to report to Congress, and all bets are off. The commission, which has been deliberating for two years, appears poised to recommend a controversial moratorium on gambling expansion; it also may call for more regulation of both Internet gambling and the rapidly expanding Indian casino market. But the odds of implementing these measures are long, to say the least. Four of the commission's nine members are unhappy with the moratorium, which they say would be perceived as a permanent ban on growth. And except...
...declared the moratorium because it seemed wrong to be running around with guns the day after the school shooting," said committee member Stephen P. Huff...