Word: states
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier action on its spring training trip, the Crimson posted a 4-5 record, including a split with budding arch-rival Oklahoma State. That record is on par with past trips...
...Jersey man has been arrested and charged with creating the Melissa e-mail virus, according to the office of the New Jersey State Attorney General. Associated Press is reporting that David L. Smith, 30, of Aberdeen, was arrested Thursday night at his brother's house in nearby Eatontown, according to Rita Malley, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Peter Verniero. The AP report also quotes Malley describing Smith as a "computer guy" who "originated [Melissa] at his apartment in Aberdeen, New Jersey." Smith is being held at the Monmouth County Jail. Technicians from America Online were apparently involved in the state...
...litigation has settled down into a kind of stubborn trench warfare. Sometimes plaintiffs win, and sometimes the companies win, as they did earlier this month in Akron, Ohio, when a federal jury decided that several tobacco giants did not have to repay dozens of union health plans in the state for smoking-related illnesses...
...Certainty, however, is what the tobacco industry has always sought: initially by successfully squelching or winning every smoking lawsuit for decades, and lately by trying to strike a nationwide deal that included strict limits on lawsuits. Congress did not buy the nationwide deal, and the recent arrangement with 46 state attorneys general does not cover individual lawsuits. That leaves tobacco companies where they don't want to be: exposed...
...must we enter the new century in a state of ignorance? There is no shame in that. All previous centuries have been justly proud of their achievements, yet those have been found, in retrospect, to be deficient. We must learn to be patient. We should also discard the idea that scientific inquiry will ever be complete. What we know so far is that each question answered merely spawns another. Why should it not be like that for the rest of time...