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...Toronto] to consider postponing all but essential travel." Meanwhile, Toronto city officials are furious with the announcement, claiming the WHO's decree is premature, and arguing the resultant decline in tourist and business traffic could send the city into a financial tailspin. The mayor has asked the WHO to repeal the advisory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Sense of SARS | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

Backed by other Republicans, Hatch authored a proposal to repeal the PATRIOT Act’s 2005 sunset, or expiration date, making the legislation permanent...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Don’t Let Hatch Hitchhike | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill to remove the synagogue panel a few years after its installation, only to repeal it soon later on constitutional grounds. With the reversal pending, an anonymous visitor splashed the image with ink, leaving Sargent the first to restore his own murals...

Author: By Josiah P. Child, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Center Restores Sargent Murals | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

...interest handouts and national security legislation is back on. Last year, a measure that would have protected Eli Lilly & Co. from lawsuits involving a mercury-based preservative in many childhood vaccines was quietly attached to legislation establishing the Department of Homeland Security-but a furious outcry led to its repeal two months later. Now it's been coupled to a bill that would-finally-set up a compensation program for health care workers who suffer serious side effects from smallpox vaccines. The absence of such a program is a big reason why fewer than 13,000 of the Bush administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smallpox Legislation Faces Uphill Battle | 3/15/2003 | See Source »

...destroy it, or change it? And, aptly for today, there is the question of when is it right to fight?" McKellen, a veteran gay-rights activist, has his own wars still to wage. He's furious that Prime Minister Tony Blair has not delivered on his promise to repeal Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act, which prohibits state schools from teaching that homosexuality is not offensive, in his first Parliament. "As a public figure I have a responsibility to be open, to bring comfort to people in societies where it is actually dangerous to be publicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wizard of the West End | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

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