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...bracing effect on Capitol Hill. Beset by fears of a possible bird-flu pandemic, Congress last month approved $3.8 billion for flu-pandemic preparation, most of it earmarked for buying vaccines and medicines. The defense appropriations bill carrying the provision also controversially provides vaccine manufacturers with a virtually airtight shield from liability...
...public network, in an effort to balance supposed liberal bias, in particular that of NOW with Bill Moyers. It would have been a more convincing argument if Moyers had not left the show months before. This clumsy partisan meddling-from the head of the very body meant to shield public broadcasting from political influence...
...Holy Crossbow (no mention was made of Monty Python’s infamous Holy Hand Grenade). In doing so, they show Satan that “nothing can overcome the power of the Holy Spirit.”Other nominally spiritual elements are present. “The Shield of Faith increases your defense, the Gauntlets of Peace increase your firepower, and the Boots of Justice increase your speed and jumping ability,” states the advertising for “Ominous Horizons.”When asked what, other than the terminology, makes these games Christian...
...World Trade Center. More often, the individual is moved with U.S. help to another country prepared to prosecute him. In a perfect world, where every country had a functioning judiciary, rendition would not be needed. But that is not the case. And some governments - Pakistan, for example - need to shield their cooperation with the U.S. from their anti-American publics. Renditions have been performed for decades and approved by U.S. courts. The problem is that the standards governing them appear to have weakened. In the past, renditions were overseen by a small army of vigilant lawyers, and the U.S. both...
Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) plans to install “Veritas” waffle irons in all 12 undergraduate houses this week. The waffle irons—already popular in Dunster and Mather Houses, where they debuted in September—stamp the Harvard shield on top of each waffle, creating an imprint approximately half the diameter of the waffle...