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Likewise, some of the familiar groups involved in terror, like Lebanon's Hizballah and the Palestinian militants of Hamas, seem less suspect this time, since both now largely restrict their attacks to Israeli targets. But little dissident cells keep proliferating, and for many of them America is a generalized object of their hatred. A previously unknown group calling itself the Liberation Army of the Islamic Shrines phoned the Cairo office of al-Hayat newspaper to claim responsibility after the blast but offered no information to back up its claim. Investigators are also looking at a threat published in the same...
However debatable their effectiveness in practice, concealed-carry laws appeal to citizens grown skittish over lethal violence--if only because measures to restrict access to weapons don't seem to have ended the bloodbaths. Last month the Missouri legislature put a concealed-carry referendum on next April's ballot, and lawmakers in Michigan are scheduled to vote on a similar measure soon. "Carrying a gun does not guarantee you won't get hurt," says Suzanna Gratia Hupp, a Texas legislator who crusaded for her state's law, "but it changes the odds." Many Americans will take them...
...Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Today I will undergo an all-day physical examination designed to ferret out the body's early warning signs, nascent failings and pending catastrophes. Dozens of similar executive health programs have sprung up around the country, prompted by the proliferation of HMOs, which generally restrict physicals to bare-bones essentials, and by a rapidly aging population in need of greater care. The cost of these thorough examinations can run high--from $1,200 to $2,500--and is generally not reimbursable by insurance companies. Rather, employers often insist that their executives have an examination, and pick...
...Last year the Governor of Montana objected to French designer Claude Montana's claim that he owns exclusive rights to use the word Montana on a variety of clothing goods. The Governor contends that no one can restrict use of a word that is a geographic location...
Certain Harvard students don't restrict their business clothes to the summer work-place. Convinced that they are what they wear, these students will candidly admit that sliding on a tie in the morning helps them get ahead...