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...train crosses frontiers at night--to restrict our vision, we hear. We also hear stories about Chinese officials who confiscate calligraphies. Mongolians who open cameras and expose film, and Russians who dispute visas because passengers no longer resemble their passport photos. Collecting our passports, the medal-chested officers search our compartments with flashlights, not for contraband, but for bodies. They then dismiss us to change money, U.S. dollar standard, while workers change the dining car and the outside wheels to accommodate the narrower Mongolian track. In the deserted station, the passengers mingle, elated--and shivery. We are relieved...
University scientists have said the limits will restrict crucial research, much of which generates radioactive waste as a by-product. They vowed last week to join with higher education administrators to pressure the Legislative to amend the law but are also mapping contingency plans in case their lobbying fails...
...academics involved in medical or biological research--have joined the large power companies in opposing the proposed law. Opponents say that existing safeguards are adequate and some citizens groups object that the law would by pass local decisionmaking. Researchers, despite the exemptions tear that the law will severely restrict their activities. They explain that it would be too costly for individual laboratories or universities to construct their own storage and disposal facilities...
...docket now facing the Justices is not only the heaviest ever but one of the hottest in recent years. Among the more emotional issues is abortion and whether states or localities may restrict it by requiring, for example, parental consent for minors. The Justices will also rule on the constitutionality of a Minnesota statute that allows parents a tax deduction for their children's private-school tuition. Then there is the so-called Betamax case: Are U.S. copyright laws violated when video-tape-machine owners record TV shows at home? A critical case tests the legality of the legislative...
Compared with the jails in Brazil, American prisons are a paradise. Nevertheless, prisons have failed society as well as inmates. There is only one solution. We ought to restrict confinement to the truly dangerous. For the others, probation, fines and compulsory community service are sufficient...