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...state which one must enter alone, a place into which nobody, not even the audience in a theater, can follow you. They can follow you to the very brink of madnessand follow you with great interest if your name is Hamlet or King Lear. But they cannot cross that threshold with you; they can only watch the play develop around you once you have become little more than a set piece, a constant force of irrationality. There is a reason that the conflicts of government play a larger role in the second part of Bennett's play than the first...
...boxes that declares all phones that emit radiation below the Federal Communications Commission SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally safe. (An SAR measures the energy in watts per kilogram that one gram of body tissue absorbs from a cell phone.) "There's no evidence that any number below the threshold is safer than any other," says Chuck Eger, Motorola's director of strategic and regulatory policy for personal-communications products...
People who are climbing beyond the lower rungs of the economic ladder, however, would benefit from Bush's plan. It is designed to ease the transition for families moving just past the $25,000 threshold and into the realm of the taxed. Bush would also give vouchers to the parents of low-income students to help pay for private school...
...execution chamber in Huntsville, Tex., will be busy Wednesday night. Two inmates are scheduled to die by lethal injection - one of whom, Oliver David Cruz, has repeatedly tested below the threshold for mental retardation - and Governor George W. Bush will not be there...
Oliver David Cruz, whose IQ has been variously measured at 83 and 63 - below 70 being the generally accepted threshold for mental retardation - has become a focal point for yet another emotional debate over Texas's execution practices. Cruz was convicted 12 years ago of the rape and stabbing murder of 24-year-old Kelly Donovan, an Air Force linguist in San Antonio. Cruz has confessed, and, his advocates argue, shows anguished remorse. His is not, however, the kind of remorse one might expect from an adult, Cruz's lawyers insist. Cruz's comprehension of his crime and the implications...