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...past three years, stories, rumors and superstition have swirled around the Htoo twins as mysteriously as the early morning mists that swathe the mountain forests where they live. Ka Mar Pa Law village lies on the side of a steep slope ringed with minefields, and the path is known only to local Karens who bring in supplies and a few visiting missionaries. There, in a huddle of thatched huts, the boys preside over an encampment with subsistence food, no electricity and little knowledge of the outside world. God's Army shuns strangers and mostly wants to be left alone...
...staff seems to me inconsistent, though, when it simultaneously endorses the "slippery slope" argument used by these justices they criticize. Allowing Congress to declare that violence against women substantially affects commerce does not mean that any tie to commerce--no matter how tenuous--allows federal regulation. Both Congress and 36 of the states have agreed that this is an issue of extreme importance worthy of a federal remedy. It seems that the only ones fighting this law are the conservative jurists trying to play a role in the "new revolution" in Constitutional law--resurrecting states' rights...
ROSEBUD SAFETY TIPS For many kids, the best part of winter is a good sled ride down a snowy slope. To keep the thrill safe, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is urging parents to supervise the fun--and to put helmets on children under 12. Each year about 7,000 kids suffer head injuries in sledding crashes. Younger children are especially vulnerable because they have proportionally larger heads, higher centers of gravity and less developed coordination. For a brochure on how to sled safely, call...
...There's a slippery slope argument," he said. "If the ASCR sticks to this point it's possible CCSR might redraw the line. It could take a couple of years...
...milder ones--such as stopping a corporation from engaging in certain anticompetitive actions--may even be worse. "You'd have a judge in effect as CEO, micromanaging every decision," warns Jeff Eisenach, president of the conservative Progress & Freedom Foundation. "It's the first step down the slippery slope to government regulation of the computer industry...