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...question is this: If the bill becomes law, will it truly disinfect our politics? The end of Clinton's presidency and the launch of Bush's were a parable for reformers, between the pardons for Democratic fat cats and the environmental policy clout of Big Business. But like a virus, political money has a way of mutating so it spreads in any environment. Be careful what you wish for. The cure may be worse than the disease. "This is a stunningly stupid thing to do, my colleagues," Kentucky's Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor, "and don't think...
...race-based culture not only exists, it thrives. The question is whether it exists as a virus or a rich harvest of possibilities.” —Toni Morrison...
...Unchecked by any complex laws of economics, eBay spreads like a virus. There are few geographic restrictions: Australian, Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, New Zealand and Swiss versions of the website are available. There are practically no legal restrictions, especially since a San Francisco court recently declared the auction service could not be held responsible for pirated or bootlegged music sold on its site (Napster should be so lucky). Its name has entered the global lexicon: "I bet you'll find that on eBay" has become the punch line to a thousand jokes. For the media, eBay...
...race-based culture not only exists, it thrives. The question is whether it exists as a virus or a rich harvest of possibilities," she said...
...just culls and quarantines on the farms of Europe. The foot-and-mouth epidemic is also spreading fear and despair to farm families who are watching helplessly as their livestock - and livelihoods - literally go up in smoke. Even in countries and regions that are so far disease-free, the virus frightens farmers and changes the way they manage their flocks and fields. Here are personal stories of life - and death - on three European farms...