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...government database, which could be used to link individual guns to specific crimes. So far, four states are considering joining Maryland and New York in creating such a system. But the gun lobby has vowed to fight it, with N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre saying it is "another scheme that is gun registration masquerading as ballistics fingerprinting." The Bush Administration is lukewarm to the idea. Press secretary Ari Fleischer questioned the effectiveness of the technology two weeks ago and asserted, "In the case of the sniper, the real issue is values... The question is not new laws; the question...
...This is a reverse robinhood scheme,” he says. “It’s a fraud...
Even worse is Coke’s scheme to keep the few workers it does cover from taking part in the treatment plan. Coke requires workers to make a 10 percent co-payment. Previous estimates put the cheapest annual treatment for one HIV positive patient at a cost of $2,500. For a Coke employee, many of whom make well under $3,000 a year, the cost is an impossible burden. Even the 10 percent co-payment is simply too expensive for Coke’s bottling employees to afford and will preclude treatment from actually reaching its workers. Coke...
...summer, even as the CIA tracked his nuclear activities, Kim was showing signs of opening the North's barbed-wire gates, economically and diplomatically. He edged in the direction of primitive market reforms and announced a grandiose scheme for a private-enterprise zone along the border with China. Just as intriguing was the sudden burst of sunshine from Pyongyang diplomats as they clamored to hold talks with Seoul, Tokyo and even Washington. Soon after a shoot-out with Seoul's patrol boats that left five dead, the North scheduled its first tete-a-tete with the South in nine months...
...BCA’s plan to encourage athletic departments to look at minorities when hiring by attempting to hurt them where they’ll notice—in recruiting, and presumably, on the field—may seem like a misguided scheme (indeed, it was concocted by prominent attorney Johnnie Cochran, not the most rational guy in the world), but I think it may get deaf university administrations to pay attention...