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...Chivian ’64, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, said he felt a certain degree of trepidation in meeting Evangelical minister Richard Cizik. But the two were able to put aside their differences and fashion a program to protect the global environment called the Scientists and Evangelicals Initiative...
...milk to meet the same safety standards as pasteurized milk. John Sheehan, director of dairy-food safety at the FDA, has likened drinking raw milk to "playing Russian roulette with your health"; advocates accuse the agency of relying on outdated information and harassing raw-milk producers in order to protect the pasteurizing industry. "The heat from the government against us is just palpable," says Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, Calif., which produces and ships raw milk across the country...
...that an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification at the polls is constitutional. We believe that both sides of the Supreme Court’s argument—that the law does not place an undue burden on citizens’ ability to vote and that this law protects against the imminent threat of voter fraud—are misguided. This law, which is one of the nation’s toughest, does not allow voters to use utility or phone bills or employee identification at the polls. The necessity of government-issued photo ID means that citizens...
...cellular modem built in. Yet even the Dash Express can't be remotely located using this technology. "We are not technically capable of tracking exactly where a device is," says Mark Williamson, Dash's director of marketing, who adds that the device was purposefully designed that way to protect consumer privacy. Instead the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company uses information sent from Dash devices only to provide faster updates on local traffic conditions. (Should a unit get stolen, however, Dash lets owners disable it remotely by calling customer service and providing the serial number...
...Talking to Mehsud may help protect Pakistan, says Weinbaum, but would ultimately do little to prevent international terrorism. Mehsud wants the Pakistan government to withdraw the military from the tribal areas and allow him to continue his war against NATO troops in Afghanistan. "Even if the Pakistani government gets a good deal, it would still only be a kind of containment policy," says Weinbaum. "Our interests will not be served by this. It has very little implication for what we are interested in - breaking up terrorist networks, al-Qaeda, and impeding the insurgents going into Afghanistan...