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...issue of medical marijuana "ought to be looked at and will be looked at," McCaffrey said in a speech at the Institute of Politics (IOP) earlier this month...
...Empire Strikes Back the necessity for or even the intention behind the changes is not as clear. Since it would be wrong to regard the trilogy as an artistic masterpiece as opposed to a special effects film, we can't call it a piece of film history that ought not be retouched. But the originals are good enough and loved enough that we would trust George Lucas to change them only with an eye to improvement...
...works would know, communication anonymity is hard to achieve for Web browsers, and almost impossible for Web publishers. As for electronic mail, which, due to its design, is easier to "spoof" with anonymous messages, there are simple ways to authenticate messages to confirm their senders' identity. Internet users ought to be educated to treat any anonymous or unauthenticated mail with suspicion and caution. For those who truly take offense to anonymous or unauthenticated messages, software filtering is also easy to set up. The mailing list mentioned in the article could have been set up with a simple restriction against unauthorized...
...Strategic Services, calling his attention to the personal friendship between senior Swiss and Nazi central-bank officials and a deal they had arranged. Each month, Switzerland promised to purchase 6,000 kg of German gold, which the Reich was using to buy Swiss ball bearings. Roosevelt's reply: "We ought to block the Swiss participation in saving the skins of rich or prominent Germans." But Roosevelt took no action...
General McCaffrey ought to rethink his statements about invading Arizona and California on zero-tolerance missions to secure drug-free justice. The New England Journal of Medicine in its Jan. 30 issue editorialized on "Federal Foolishness and Marijuana," saying that marijuana's status as a Schedule I drug should be downgraded to Schedule II, reflecting the acceptable medical use of the drug. Many sick people have legitimate uses for it because they are in pain, and whatever can alleviate their pain should be legal simply because that's the medically correct and humane thing...