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...Joseph has a website, www.SaveThePlasticBag.com, which comprehensively details, among other things, how much cockroaches love paper bags; and as a lawyer, he's a pretty good publicist: in 2003 he sued Kraft Foods to prevent the sale of Oreo cookies to children under the age of 11 in California, on the grounds that they were full of trans fat. While he didn't win the court battle, he clearly won the war; Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an anti-trans-fat bill into law on July 25. Earlier, Joseph sued San Francisco's parking department to get the agency to remove...
...with al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban, ETIM has been training members specifically to mount operations in China." He warns that although the group is small, the threat it poses to the Olympics is real because of the training and assistance it has received from al-Qaeda-linked groups. "To prevent attacks, it is essential for Beijing to develop a deeper understanding of the structures of each one of these groups, their operatives and their modus operandi," the report argues, adding that "the current understanding of the authorities of China of these three groups is appreciably weak...
...head of the party tried to prevent him from divorcing his first wife," says Rose today. But Sudjojono refused to comply, and in 1958 quit the PKI and his parliamentary post. He married Rose the following year. It was a painful decision, as his parliamentary salary disappeared, along with government patronage for his art. "We didn't have a lot of money," recalls Maya, who says most of the family's income came from her mother's piano lessons and singing (Rose was a mezzo-soprano who frequently performed on national radio...
...tell" was itself a misnomer, a media-friendly term that did not accurately describe the 1993 law passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by President Clinton. The law did not actually prevent the Pentagon from "asking" any service member or potential service member whether he or she is gay. The Pentagon did agree to stop asking about sexuality in recruitment forms and interviews, but it never agreed to stop investigating whether those serving in the military are gay. That's why discharges of gays did not substantially decrease after the law was enacted. Compare the period between...
...while Obama said that a nuclear Iran would be "game-changing," and that he wouldn't take any option off the table to prevent that from happening, he stopped short of saying that he's in favor of the United States using force to stop the Iranians - which is what many Israelis yearn to hear. And the presumptive Democratic nominee also met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah - a trip that Republican nominee-to-be John McCain did not make when he was in Israel a few months...