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...Britney Spears, among roughly 3,000 others, are "semi-protected," meaning they can't be edited by anonymous surfers. Wales says that, at least initially, the new flagged-protection plan will probably apply to the same set of controversial articles, which are most prone to vandalism. But the vast majority of articles - even the ones about relatively famous people, like your average U.S. Senator or late-night talk-show host - would remain open to alteration by Web surfers...
...Italian legal system, having passed a series of stringent state tests to join the national Polizia Scientifica in Rome. One of her chief antagonists is defense expert Sara Gino, a whiz-kid forensic expert from Turin who charges that Stefanoni cherry-picked DNA results to profile the suspects, ignoring vast amounts of other biological material. Gino also alleges that Stefanoni lied about test results that didn't back up the police thesis of a drug-fueled sex murder involving Knox. Responding to charges of shoddy work, Stefanoni tartly told an Italian newspaper recently, "Given the fact that DNA doesn...
...despite his support for Edelman’s guidelines, Lee is uncertain that there’s “immense pressure from advertisers” for change. He said it is unlikely that any immediate change will be seen from Edelman’s proposal because the vast majority of ad disputes come from a small minority of parties. Harvard undergraduate publication Freeze Magazine has had its own share of problems with Google advertising, according to Windsor G. Hanger ’10, former executive editor of the magazine. She said she remembered having frequent problems with...
...Even if the Baucus bill bears Snowe's stamp, that does not mean it will get her vote. She stood with Republicans when they demanded that Baucus submit his vast measure to full scoring by the Congressional Budget Office to ensure that everyone knew what it would cost. Nor has she said she will support the bill's individual mandate, which would require people who are not covered by their employers or by government programs to buy coverage for themselves, just as car owners in nearly every state must have auto insurance. Without such a requirement, the bill is likely...
...last question. You just began your second term. According to the constitution, that's all you're ever allowed. Could you ever foresee changing the constitution to enable you to serve a third term? No, our constitution is a very good and vast constitution. We think that if anyone wants to get any work done, two tenures in office is sufficient. So, the opportunities have to move. I think that this principle laid out in the constitution is a very wise one, so I will definitely hold up the principles of the constitution and the continuity of those principles. There...