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...surprisingly, these hunts have their critics. A handful of states ban or restrict the practice, and a pair of bills are pending in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to prohibit the interstate sale of exotic animals for hunts. Supporters of the hunts object, arguing that exotics are bred in sufficient numbers to support the industry and that many surplus zoo animals could not survive in the wild anyway. Even to some outdoorsmen, however, canned hunts are beginning to look like no hunt at all. "I started hunting when I was 7 and didn't kill my first deer...
Concerns such as these are prompting governments to act. More states are being pressed to ban or restrict hunting in enclosures. The House bill, which parallels one introduced in the Senate by Delaware's Joseph Biden, would not drop the hammer on the hunts but would give Washington a way to control the animal traffic...
While Leahy noted one possibility could be leaving only a small portion of the library open during late night hours, she said the building’s five staircases would make it difficult to restrict use to one area...
Marsh is more concerned that a site so popular with the under-18 set is unsupervised and doesn't restrict access to mature material--such as the NC-17-rated tales involving J.K. Rowling's Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape submitted by a girl whose online bio says she's 13. But censorship would be counter to Li's vision of an online community free to share its stuff, raw and uncut--as long as the graphic material is clearly marked. "I know how hard these writers work, and I respect it," says Li. Running the site takes 25 hours...
Stein is one of two candidates in the gubernatorial race who have registered as Clean Elections candidates, under a 1998 state law that is supposed to provide public funding for political campaigns that agree to restrict campaign contributions from individuals to no more than...