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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA: Five-time Iditarod winner Rick Swenson was booted from the Anchorage-to-Nome race after a dog on his team died 12 hours into the 10-day event. Swenson, who has run 20 of the Iditarod's 24 races and never lost a dog, is the first musher...
The NRC insists that the chance of such an accident is infinitesimal. But the agency's risk-assessment methods have been called overly optimistic by activists, engineers and at least one NRC commissioner. The agency's analysis for a fuel-pool drainage accident assumes that at most one-third of...
The provision of a limited and fleeting public good like a free concert is in no way reflective of this organization's "credibility." The fact that it can throw money at people to put on a show says nothing for the council's effectiveness of representation, its broadening influence with...
Congress grappled with this question in the debate over the recently passed Telecommunications Act and is catching hell for having done so. The Act, which contains the now infamous "indecency provision," has come under fire as a direct assault on free speech. Though the act explicitly supports the Internet, it...
For better or for worse, both the federal government and the state of Massachusetts have adopted extensive legislation to stem obscenity. Explicitly or by judicial decision (such as in the recent case of U.S. v. Thomas), such laws have been found applicable to computers. In addition, laws such as Massachusetts...