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According to Silversmith, CLUH opposes stringent gender divisions on the moral grounds that they "imply that physiological differences make students incapable of cohabitating...
Romania is hardly the only beneficiary of such German largesse. Thousands of tons of waste have been dumped, legally and illegally, in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. While Bonn has spent more than $1 billion cleaning up industrial toxins bequeathed by the former G.D.R., stringent recycling laws have built up a mountain of ordinary refuse that is difficult and expensive to dispose of at home. As a result, Germany has become the world's leading exporter of trash...
...head the Environmental Protection Agency, coming to the defense of 35 pesticides that potentially cause cancer. Arguing that they actually pose little threat to human health since they are consumed in extremely minute amounts, she seemed poised to ask Congress to relax one of America's oldest and most stringent food-safety laws so that farmers could keep applying the chemicals to crops...
Census Bureau figures indicate that about 75 percent of the two million households with domestic workers fail to pay the required taxes, according to an Internal Revenue Service spokesperson quoted in The New York Times. And while "everyone's doing it" is no excuse, consider the pettiness of this stringent new ethical standard: anyone who has paid someone (a babysitter, for example) more than $50 over the course of three months is required to pay taxes for that person. The number of people who have violated this law is probably incalculable...
...food has been recalled, company officials announced. And they say they have changed their cooking methods so that the meat is grilled longer and at higher temperatures. Since Jack in the Box did not violate any federal rules, health officials argue that the tragedy underscores the need for more stringent guidelines in food inspection and preparation...