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...addition to the host of valid ecological and ethical objections to modifying other organisms, this case also points out some of the unacceptable technological flaws with biotechnology. Technologies whose side effects cannot be completely controlled fail to meet all of the purposes for which they were created, and therefore are insufficient. When a Pentium chip, for example, makes a mistake every million calculations, it's immediately recalled because its effects are unpredictable...
...price increase can be attributed to increased consumption and the costs associated with new treatments. And they note that many of their drugs, particularly antidepressants, decline in value from their launch prices. Finally, they argue that country-to-country comparisons of prices are far to simple to be valid measurements of cost and value...
...intention of the voter can be ascertained with reasonable certainty from his ballot, that intention will be given effect even though the ballot is not strictly in conformity with the law." The Illinois high court examined 27 ballots with dimpled chads and held that eight of them were valid votes--enough to decide that election...
...voters more representation than others. Florida's recount law, on the other hand, is designed to ensure that all voters in the state get the same vote. A recount should not give a county's voters more or less representation; it should simply ensure that everyone who cast a valid ballot is given a vote...
...ultimately, commonsense aspects of Brace's claims may make a lasting impression on Sauls. The idea that hanging chad happens - and can fool a machine scanner - is still a valid and sensible argument for a Miami-Dade manual recount, whatever the legal questions involved (that'll come later), and there was no evidence Sauls didn't see it. And when Beck had finished, and wiped the blood off his lips, Gore lawyer Zack made up some lost ground, bringing in a genuine Votomatic whose basin that was "filled to the brim with chad." The intuitive virtues of Brace's testimony...