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Such fears have prompted 10 states, beginning with California in 2004, to pass laws obliging automakers to tell buyers if their vehicles have recorders; the laws also restrict the downloading of data without car owners' consent. Eleven other states are considering similar legislation...
...tribunal could nullify the election, which would require Congress to appoint an interim president and schedule new elections within 18 months. That, too, would restrict governance, and simply usher in another long season of campaigning...
...there's the suspicion that, as a storyteller, Shyamalan might be a one-trick pony. O.K., it's a great trick: the notion of dread congealing around some ordinary man, capped by a switcheroo that casts all that preceded it in a darker light. But the surprise ending can restrict an artist. (Ask O. Henry; ask Rod Serling.) If viewers of each new Shyamalan film get a twist, it feels predictable. If they don't, they feel cheated...
...them at a competitive disadvantage by changing the way they charge companies for using bandwidth. Google has complained, for example, that a cable company could charge it much higher fees if it wants to run as fast as other competing sites. Bloggers warn that a broadband company could even restrict or slow down access to sites that express political viewpoints they disagree with. Cable and phone companies like BellSouth argue that since they?ve built these high-speed networks they should have the ability to charge higher rates for companies like Google (which is not exactly struggling financially) that...
KATHI-ANNE REINSTEIN, Massachusetts state representative, after the withdrawal of a controversial proposal by state senator Jarrett Barrios to restrict the serving of Fluffernutters--marshmallow and peanut-butter sandwiches--in elementary schools...