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...banning soft money would "chill free expression." These same dire warnings were echoed in a New York Times op-ed piece last week where the authors (one of whom is general counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union) sought to prove that banning soft money is tantamount to "prohibit[ing] speech...
...Harkin (D-Iowa), who provided the impetus for the Times article by providing unclassified State Department documents to the newspaper, has promised in conjunction with Republicans Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to introduce legislation calling to prohibit imports from Burma...
Furthermore, this type of firewall would prohibit students from publishing anything to the Internet from their computers...
...particular assortment of genes we're born with, there seems no reason not to change them. We interfere with natural biological processes every time we take an antibiotic, and only a very few religious sects maintain that curing disease goes against the rightful order of the world. To prohibit genetic engineering but not any other intervention in our biology seems no less arbitrary than simply declaring, "Genetic engineering is wrong...
PRETTY SHARP The Sharper Image, that glitzy mail-order purveyor of talking chessboards and ionic hair dryers, has a new item that may actually be of some use, especially in counties that prohibit dialing while driving. The cleverly named Car Cell Phone System ($130) is a plug-and-play speakerphone for Nokia and Motorola models that doubles as a handset recharger. Not sharp enough? It comes with a built-in digital recorder that, when activated, grabs the previous 20 seconds of your conversation or message...