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...ignored as a fringe element. Americans, it turns out, aren't conflicted in their attitude toward marijuana. They want it illegal but not really enforced. A TIME/CNN poll last week found that only 34% want pot to be totally legalized (the percentage has almost doubled since 1986). But a vast majority have become mellow about official loopholes: 80% think it's O.K. to dispense pot for medical purposes, and 72% think people caught with it for recreational use should get off with only a fine. That seeming paradox has left a huge opening for pro-pot people to exploit. Eight...
...drive with photos of American passenger and cargo trains as well as rail crossings. At about the same time, senior al-Qaeda operatives in custody told their CIA and FBI interrogators that the organization had plans for targeting railroads. Counterterrorism officials are worried that security for the nation's vast rail system, which has not previously been a target of terrorists, is far weaker than it is for the airlines. --By Douglas Waller
Summers says the University aims to encourage professors to make their work accessible to the general public, so long as such endeavors “contribute to the University’s objectives of seeking truth and advancing knowledge...In the vast majority of cases there is no conflict,” Summers says. “We don’t seek to proscribe what audiences our faculty should write for; we do take very seriously the obligation faculty have to focus on their academic obligations...
...frames, changes the dynamic of the work considerably. It is harder to penetrate the shell of the photographs, to escape their inherent formalism, and in certain instances it is hard to understand why the curator chose the images he did. Roadworks (1995), for example, with its outdoor setting and vast scale, never fully found its legs in this exhibition. When the orderly method of presentation is abandoned, as when two photographs are displayed on top of each other or without frames, it seems either too self-conscious or slightly cramped. The photographs themselves, laid-back and often cropped with irregular...
...policies that meet this standard. When religious instruction passes from personal virtue and universal ideals to political stumping, warning bells should go off in our heads—even when the issue at hand is as weighty as war. The vast majority of committed Christians are not pacifists and do not find in the Bible an absolute prohibition on the use of force. The Bible teaches a presumption for charity and forgiveness, but when peaceful means have been exhausted, the Christian may find himself with no viable alternative to battle. The Bible itself tells of such times...