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...didn't please the American Lung Association and other groups, it hasn't cost their support - the measure to give the FDA oversight has been endorsed by every major U.S. health group. The FDA would almost certainly force cigarette manufacturers to list their ingredients, remove some harmful chemicals, further tighten advertising restrictions and prevent cigarette companies from making their product more addictive...
...cents. Many Catholics believe that officials in Rome bear a significant moral and administrative burden as the leaders of a hierarchy that allowed these predator priests to inflict such damage. They point out that when the Pope wants to impose new rules for the liturgy, rein in theologians or tighten entrance into seminaries, Rome expects those edicts to be fully applied at the local level. And so, they ask, where was the strong hand from above when it came to protecting the most innocent parishioners? If the burden is on the individual bishops, shouldn't some blame extend...
...delegation is about to wrap up a three-week mission to examine security procedures along the Lebanon-Syria border and will conclude that much needs to be done to tighten border security. That could spur U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to recommend dispatching a U.N. observer mission to monitor the porous frontier. Such a decision will anger Damascus, which has repeatedly stated its opposition to an international presence along its border with Lebanon. It will further add pressure on the Palestinian bases, which are linked to Syria via numerous remote trails that criss-cross the mountainous border. The Lebanese...
...cleanly. But freelance agents who work with other recruiters and employers are not nearly so scrupulous. Peasants, lured at times by false promises about what they can earn, are being charged as much as $2,000 to get on recruiters' lists for U.S. positions. If the Senate plan does tighten the border and expand the guest-worker program, says Velasquez, then the money that once went to human smugglers at the border will simply be redirected to criminal gangs inside Mexico who prey on the guest-worker-recruiting process...
...says David A. Weitz, a physics professor who directs Harvard’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Weitz says the University may have to turn to private-sector sources—including venture capital firms—more frequently in the future as federal agencies tighten their purse strings...