Word: restrictions
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...well-known publisher of USA Today, entered into talks with the president of Colorado State to discuss a business partnership with their school paper. Partnerships with student publications and for-profit corporations are dangerous. Such deals will most likely serve to limit the leadership opportunities for student journalists and restrict the editorial autonomy of college newspapers. In January, a falling-out between the student government and newspaper at Montclair State University required the editors to suspend publication as the student-body representatives pulled the paper’s funding. A major concern was that funding was yanked primarily...
That will likely happen even if the voters in the fall restrict gay marriage to opposite-sex couples. Such challenges, however, are anything but a sure thing. If the federal courts rule that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional, gays in states where marriages are banned will likely be out of luck, Sam Marcosson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, told TIME...
...otherwise disenfranchised groups. But the government’s attitude towards these groups is rapidly changing. Largely unnoticed amid stories of silicon valleys, double-digit growth rates, and foreign direct investment is the darker side of Indian development: the government’s growing willingness to silence dissent and restrict basic freedoms...
...assault weapons - and under the 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) these were all but banned. At huge cost, the government bought from their owners some 650,000 of the newly prohibited guns, which police destroyed. It also implemented mandatory gun licenses and registration of all firearms, helping to restrict to 5% of the population the number of Australian adults who owned or used guns last year, down from...
...offers is that since no whole animals are killed, the eating of in vitro meat is not a problem. This technicality raises some serious ethical questions. Is a vegetarian who eats in vitro meat still a vegetarian? Similar problems can easily be imagined for any other individual with dietary restrictions. For example, Jewish kashrut and Islamic halal both restrict the consumption of pork. Would pork grown in vitro or tissues that taste like pork but are different from any living animal fall under the restrictions? The same scenario can be imagined for Hindus who don’t eat beef...