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...because of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals? If that's what the fall has in store, then maybe there's no choice but to bring on the long, hot summer. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Viveca Novak, Amanda Ripley and Mark Thompson/ Washington and Cathy Booth Thomas/ Dallas
...violation of the Controlled Substances Act, a claim rejected by the lower courts. The Justices ruled in 1997 that state laws banning assisted suicide are constitutional. Still, given how much ambivalence they expressed in that case, this one is anything but open and shut. --Reported by Viveca Novak, Amanda Ripley and Eric Roston/Washington
...upon crops now boast small plants that make products such as shoes, radios and billiard balls. Free markets enliven every town's main street, attracting peddlers from all around who bring their wares by bicycle. (What can be tied up and carried on two wheels would have amazed even Ripley: live pigs and goats and 20-ft.-long bamboo poles...
...revoking licenses became a way to punish people who didn't pay child support or, in Wisconsin, shovel snow off their walks. In its most coveted form, the license is proof of age--or of fraud, as the case may be. In college, for example, I was not Amanda Ripley from New Jersey; I was Amanda Jones from California. I lived on Yellowbrick Road and looked suspiciously joyful in the photo, which was taken in the dorm room of an unsavory character to whom I had paid...
...number crunching, unlike Gladwell. And he forms some different conclusions. While Blink argues that our subconscious judgments are often correct, Levitt finds human error everywhere. We aren't very good at judging risk, assessing causality and avoiding temptation, he learns. But he relishes studying us anyway. --By Amanda Ripley...