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...high school science whiz kids. The second component is actual fissionable material--55 lbs. of enriched uranium, say, which would be enough to turn the heart of New Orleans into radioactive dust. With the increasing use of nuclear technology around the world and the destabilization of Russia, the once stringent global controls on uranium and plutonium are increasingly being subverted. U.S. intelligence officials admit that a terrorist would have no more difficulty slipping a nuclear device into the U.S. than a drug trafficker has bringing in bulk loads of cocaine...
...Watergate. You might have known it would trace back to President Nixon somehow. After Nixon's resignation, Congress enacted more stringent taxpayer privacy laws to protect against future attempts to get confidential information on people the government didn't like...
...First Amendment recognizes that a democracy cannot dictate what is the truth. Attempts to do so often bring about the exact opposite (witness the rise of neo-Nazis in Germany, despite stringent censorship). If Ben-Shachar considered the implications of his argument, he would realize that it could have been used to silence the opponents of slavery in the 19th century and campaigners for civil rights in the 20th century. Those individuals who disagree with the "core values" of a society are in fact those most in need of the protections of the First Amendment. If the protections of free...
Participation requirements were not stringent. "I'm not on the faculty and I have no talent," said Director of Dining Services Michael P. Berry, whose dramatic reading of students' dining hall comment cards brought the night's loudest outbursts of laughter...
...free tickets or free vacations. Seeking to upgrade their greasy public image, House members voted overwhelmingly to impose a nearly complete ban on accepting gifts from lobbyists. (The Senate has already approved a similar but less stringent ban on its members.) Representative Waldholtz, one of the ban's biggest backers, skipped the debate...