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While a large number of Jews cheered the coming of the end of days, it was always the orthodox, the strictest followers of the Jewish faith, who saw through these flakes and would have no part in the celebration. We zealots know how to ruin a good time...
...three decades that breast implants have been on the market, the FDA has never before considered their safety. It did not have the authority to do so until 1976, and the agency took until 1988 to put the implants on its list of medical devices requiring the strictest scrutiny. The companies had until last July to document the implants' safety, but could not satisfy the FDA's experts...
Majestic phrases like "due process of law" require parsing. Even the strictest constructionists would accept that the natural-law thinking of the 18th century is useful in divining the framers' "original intent...
With a surprisingly strong vote in both houses, Louisiana's legislature last week overrode Governor Buddy Roemer's veto and enacted the strictest antiabortion law in the land. The measure imposes up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine for any doctor who performs an illegal abortion, although the woman undergoing the procedure would not be punished. Exceptions would be allowed only if the mother's life was threatened by pregnancy or if she had been the victim of rape or incest. Ignoring Roemer's demands for broader protections for such victims, however, the legislature added...
...Children were taught that their fathers and grandfathers committed the worst crimes known to man. The governments were forced to rely on other nations for protection. War was wrong. Gradually, as the lessons sank in, both countries were allowed to rebuild their armed forces, but under some of the strictest self-defense limits in the world...