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...another department spends more millions to defend against them. Indeed, the very essence of ambiguity is our vain search for a bloodless, odorless, motionless, painless, foolproof mode of killing healthy people. No amount of patching changes the nature of a Rube Goldberg machine. In 1996 Congress passed an extensive overhaul of capital punishment, but as in all previous overhauls, the changes quickly spawned new nuances to appeal. Ten years later, one of the most skillful anti-death-penalty lawyers in the country, Mark Olive, summed up the impact of the grandly titled Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, saying...
...also picked up receiver Donté Stallworth in free agency and signed linebacker Adalius Thomas to a five-year, $35 million deal, the richest unrestricted free-agent contract in team history. For a franchise known for steadily building teams through the draft, low-profile trades and free-agent deals, this overhaul was unexpected...
...Andrew Brookes, military analyst for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "It's like buying a car that no one has bought from a showroom." For the same reason, France has been squeezed out of the arms industry's hottest contest underway - a $10-billion deal to overhaul India's Air Force, with 126 new combat jets. Military analysts believe India will choose between Russia...
...India’s rivers, which are the source of water for many households. The Indian government is faced with a number of ways to quench the creeping threat of thirst. The country’s deficient plumbing system, the source of many of its problems, demands a massive overhaul, but the employment of simple techniques to capture rain over just one to two percent of the land would provide as many as 100 liters of water per person a day—much more than the 2.5 liters needed. Groundwater wells contaminated with bacteria from raw sewage, pesticides...
...Poor voters unhappy with the proposed constitutional overhaul said they were more troubled about measures to abolish presidential term limits and facilitate state expropriation of private property than they were enthused by articles that could benefit the poor, such as social security for informal workers and popular participation in government. That begs the question: did Chavez sacrifice measures that could have helped the poor because he insisted on a political power grab...