Word: perring
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...plug the state's deficit, but it would involve making sweeping cuts in education and health services as well as taking billions from county governments. Democratic state assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced legislation that would let California regulate and tax the sale of marijuana. The state's proposed $50-per-oz. pot tax would bring in about $1.3 billion a year in additional revenue. Ammiano's bill was shelved this session, but he expects to introduce a revised bill early next year. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Great American Pot Smoke...
...admit that the choice not to make the forum completely user friendly might not actually be a choice per se. Perhaps Italians don’t know how to handle their ancient treasures in a tourist-pleasing manner. In this sense, my friend might be right, but visitors must take Roman ruins on their own terms. The bitter-sweet taste might not induce comfort, but it does make you think...
...perhaps - an overhaul of New York's prison system. On July 20, Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco introduced a so-called "Madoff bill" in New York's legislature that, if passed, would require wealthy inmates to be billed for the cost of their prison stays - estimated at $90 per inmate per day. TIME spoke with Tedisco about the legislation's nickname, the "party palace" in a Manhattan jail that helped spark the proposed law and why lawmakers might want to let prisoners keep their TVs. (Read "The Penalty for 'Extraordinary Evil': Madoff Gets 150 Years...
...them in India, Europe and, within five years, the U.S. The Reva, branded the G-Wiz in Europe, costs about $12,200 there and about $7,000 in India. The pint-size commuter vehicles are powered by lead-acid batteries, which provide about 50 miles (80 km) of driving per charge. Top speed is about 50 m.p.h. (Read "From India: First Nano's $2,000 Car. Now the $7,800 Nano Home...
...Ramesh, broke away from the saccharine tone of most of Clinton's meetings with the country's leaders by bluntly reiterating India's position that it would not accept binding emissions cuts. "There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have been among the lowest emitters per capita, face to actually reduce emissions," Ramesh said to Clinton at a conference on climate change in Gurgaon, near New Delhi, on July 19. "And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours." Clinton defused...