Word: neighbors
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...institutions like women's shelters and schools as "high risk" offenders. New York's law is based on a more extreme New Jersey statute, commonly known as Megan's Law. This law was enacted after a 7-year-old girl named Megan Kanka was raped and killed by a neighbor who, unbeknownst to the community, was twice convicted for sex offenses. These new laws, some of which are being challenged in states including New Jersey, bring to the fore a number of troubling questions about the role of individual rights in our country's legal and moral code...
...effectiveness will be battled out in courtrooms and newspapers across the country, the more important issue is the loss of faith in our society and in its institutions that is the driving force behind the new laws. We are so frightened of the unknown dangers lurking in our neighbor's--and our own--homes that we are willing to reject the founding belief in an individual's privacy in our quest for the ever-elusive safety...
Dudayev: Yes, it was. If the war goes on, the pipeline will never operate. It will be exploded. But if we reach accommodation with Russia, it will acquire a reliable neighbor who will shield it from aggression, acts of sabotage and terror...
...manage. The next project in the Discovery series is the Mars Pathfinder, scheduled for launch next December, which will land on the Red Planet and send a robot rover off to explore. Then comes Lunar Prospector in 1997, designed to chart the mineral composition of Earth's nearest neighbor, and after that a mission to bring a chunk of comet back to Earth, slated for 1999. Each is supposed to cost a few hundred million dollars at most, and thanks to NEAR that goal, considered highly improbable when it was first proposed five years ago, doesn't seem so absurd...
While Puerto Rico battles drug dealers and their violence, the consequences are even more disastrous for the tiny island states that neighbor it. Their economies rely mostly on tourism and perhaps a single cash crop like bananas or sugar. That makes them vulnerable to domination by the drug lords. If large countries like Colombia can turn into "narcodemocracies," how are much smaller and more fragile nations to avoid the same fate when they have little firepower or financial incentive to fight back? "We are really worried," says Robert Gelbard, head of the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics...