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...fact that the Bush proposal didn't kill the orbiting cash hog outright may be because it can't be killed. With contractors and subcontractors across 22 states and uncounted electoral constituencies, the station has long been a kind of cunningly planted political kudzu, impossible to pull out stem and root. If domestic commitments didn't lock the station in place, commitments to NASA's 15 international partners certainly do. And while the station thrives, so too must the three living shuttles, since they exist largely to ferry up parts and crews. "The space station is a failed dream...
Several groups, including Consumers Union and the Center for Food Safety, say the tests did in fact reveal worrisome differences and that the FDA incorrectly interpreted the data. Activists campaigning against genetically modified (GM) food want the U.S. to ban RBST outright, as Europe and Canada have. As for Maine, "we would rather be safe than sorry," says assistant attorney general Francis Ackerman, who is preparing the state's brief to intervene on Oakhurst's behalf...
...welfare reasons, the human body should not be used as a tool for reproduction," said Tomoko Kashiwagi of the Health Ministry. The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology opposes the practice in part due to the potential for "complication of family relationships." The ministry, meanwhile, is pushing for an outright ban. Women with reproductive dysfunction, says Kashiwagi, may simply "have to give up on biological children...
...party line of a brutal dictatorship. It is perhaps too much to hope that the Times would voluntarily “return” Duranty’s prize, as the Washington Post returned Janet Cooke’s prize in 1981. And yes, no Pulitzer has ever been outright revoked. But it’s hard to fathom another instance where the Pulitzer Board has made, or will make, such an egregious, indisputable error in judgment...
...minister holding a fistful of cash to his forehead, uttering "money isn't God, but by God, it's no less than God" and promising his benefactor mining concessions, it created a stir in the press?but nowhere else. Environment and Forests Minister Dilip Singh Judeo first issued an outright denial, then resigned but maintained his innocence, then admitted accepting money but compared himself to Mohandas Gandhi, saying he needed the funds for a struggle to save India from a shadowy international Christian conspiracy...