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More than anyone else except the French, Americans have been infected by the delusion that strict laws are necessary to protect people from themselves. The nation's statute books are crammed with millions of useless and largely unenforceable regulations, like the one in Seattle that bars flu sufferers from going out in public. Most of the rules are ignored, but their existence is a constant source of inspiration to the puritanically minded...
...quick with a cutting quip about foreigners, is emphasizing a tough immigration policy that is certain to reduce the number of North Africans in the country. All those judged illegal immigrants by "French justice," she says, "will be sent back home." Mitterrand agrees. "Enforcement of the law must be strict," he said last month. "Clandestine immigrants must go home...
...Strict immigration policy makes it difficult to move to Britain; only 49,000 newcomers were admitted in 1989. In the past decade, the nonwhite population rose only from 1.9 million to 2.6 million out of a total of 57 million residents. But those facts seem to make no impression on the country's racists. Between 1988 and 1990 alone, the number of racially motivated incidents of harassment or violence reported to the police jumped from 4,383 to 6,359. "Racism is on the increase and is becoming more violent," says Asad Rehman, a caseworker in London's poor East...
...response to public concern, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta last week restated the strict standards of infection control that it began developing in 1982 and that it believes should eliminate any opportunity for doctor-to-patient transmission. But for the first time, the federal agency also urged dentists, doctors and nurses who perform invasive procedures such as surgery to get tested for HIV, the AIDS virus. If they are HIV-positive, said the CDC, they should stop doing operations unless they reveal their condition to patients...
...both direct and indirect ways. In business terms, the church is an $8 billion-a-year conglomerate that employs about 10,000 people. Bankrolled in large measure by tithes from its members, the church has vast holdings in real estate, financial services, broadcasting, publishing and insurance. The church's strict morality (it forbids premarital sex, gambling and the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs) reinforces the hardworking nature of Utah's people. A Wall Street bond trader puts it succinctly: "All they do there is breed, pray and make money...