Word: neutralizes
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Africa is being threatened by its own culture of male pride, intimidation, sexual entitlement, carelessness and gender- neutral cruelty. Don't blame the West for the epidemic of AIDS. This particular crime against humanity is being perpetrated by a culture in which the criminal is also the victim. Prevention should be the key strategy, but until the African culture opens its eyes to its part in this tragedy, it will be a losing battle. PATTI LAMB Richmond, Texas...
...contributory infringement, it fortunately reiterated the Supreme Court's standard that devices capable of substantial non-infringing uses are still legal. The Napster protocol, which is merely a set of instructions for sending and receiving files, is no more illegal than the Windows "copy file" function. Beneficial, content-neutral technologies can easily be hijacked by pirates who find them useful, but they should not be banned for that reason alone. Otherwise, VCR's and tape decks would have been banned long ago for contributing to copyright infringement--as they almost were until the Supreme Court stepped in. Even if their...
...cost of this constant monitoring will be measured in lost innovations. What engineer would have been willing to design the content-neutral HTTP protocol that undergirds the Web if it had been viewed with the same suspicion as the content-neutral OpenNap protocol is today? Both protocols are capable of non-infringing use, and new ways of sharing information, regardless of the motives of their developers, offer the potential for vast social benefits...
...heart-breaker for the down-trodden Engineers came at 13:46 in the final frame. Killing off a 5-on-3 disadvantage, R.P.I. center Jim Henkel nabbed the puck in the neutral zone and flew in on a short-handed breakaway. Henkel had Jonas down and beaten, but Jonas used his cat-like reflexes to rob Henkel of R.P.I.'s best scoring opportunity all night...
White House counsel Nolan calls Holder to ask for his opinion. Holder, aware that Barak is lobbying hard, says if there's a foreign policy benefit he's "neutral, leaning toward favorable." Quinn later testifies that Nolan told him in the days after the pardon that "if Mr. Holder hadn't participated in the process...this pardon wouldn't have happened...