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...second-preference votes for the leaders are added to their tallies. The Green Party is encouraging its supporters to give their second vote to Livingstone; some fans of the Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick, once the highest-ranking openly gay officer in London's Metropolitan police, may opt to allocate their second vote to Johnson. A clever Conservative ploy to mobilize voters in London's outer, more suburban boroughs, who have tended not to vote in mayoral elections, could also pay dividends to Johnson...
Even with two-way connectivity, makers may still allow consumers to opt out of subscribing to the unit-tracking function, in part because that service would increase the annual fee - about $50 - that many companies already charge to transmit traffic updates and other information. What's more, it's not the average consumer who would track down a criminal to get his TomTom or Mio back. But the fact that it could be tracked at all would serve as a powerful deterrent; it would also help authorities locate and bust larger-scale crime rings, which typically hawk stolen electronics...
...person per year. The U.N. similarly predicts that global meat consumption will double by 2050. To any observer, the prospect of ridding the population of carnivores appears rather bleak. Therefore, PETA has decided to follow a time-honored path: if you can’t beat them, co-opt them. In vitro technology would perhaps make everyone winners: the masses could enjoy a nice steak and the animal activists wouldn’t have see any cattle butchered for that steak.However, the legitimate question arises whether in vitro meat is a Pyrrhic victory for animal rights activists. The terms...
...increase their concern for the well-being of their charges. But as recent events at Harvard have proven, deans prefer to impose liability-proof safeguards—tedious paperwork for registering parties, imperious oversight by entryway proctors, and severely curtailed access to alcohol in general—rather than opt for the more arduous but perhaps more far-seeing approach of encouraging a culture of personal responsibility and maturity. Inevitably, the lawyerly advocates of the “nanny” response prevail...
...lowering the cost of access to scholarly work might be through the type of free-access program that Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passed in February, which places a professor’s work online for free, unless the professor chooses to opt out. The professors retain the copyright and anyone, Harvard affiliated or not, has free access. This repository program bypasses the copyright expenses and royalties that journals collect. Journals are not all costs however, and one negative of avoiding scholarly journals is the loss of the peer-review process. Yet programs like this...