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...handed their governor his biggest political defeat yet by rejecting all four of his ballot initiatives on Nov. 8, Shi Wa Xin Ge was mobbed by the Chinese public on whose minds the verdict of California voters on matters such as tenure for public-school teachers did not weigh heavily. Schwarzenegger's action flicks were among the first Hollywood blockbusters that made it to China courtesy of bootleg videotapes, and the nation rewarded the Austrian-born actor by hosting a week-long Arnold Schwarzenegger Film Festival in 2000-the first and only Chinese event of its kind honoring a Western...
...years, doctors have hoped to offer women the opportunity to weigh their options earlier. Last week brought good news on that front. A $15 million study, six years in the making and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that a method of screening women for Down in the first trimester is an even better indicator of risk than second-trimester screening. The aptly named FASTER study (for first- and second- trimester evaluation of risk), published in the New England Journal of Medicine, determined that if done properly, the first-trimester screening detects...
...confirmed, Alito would one day have an opportunity to weigh in on other much disputed issues, from affirmative action and campaign-finance reform to gay rights and state's rights. The last one may become an especially sensitive topic during his hearings. Since 1995 the Rehnquist Court has struck down, in whole or in part, more than 30 federal statutes, essentially arguing that Congress had overreached and such legislation should be left to the states. Alito's controversial dissent arguing to invalidate a federal law banning machine guns nationwide leads many Senators to suspect that he would try to further...
...adequately consider residents’ needs during the negotiations. The University reached a last-minute deal with the council in October 2003, receiving permission to develop graduate student housing in Riverside in return for providing community benefits. Residents say the closed-door negotiation process left them little time to weigh in on the result...
...advances batty conspiracy theories about lots of people, and especially about one particular type of people—that is, Jews,” the newspaper wrote on Oct. 20.But Finkelstein denounced the editorial’s claims and said that the paper had failed to “weigh the evidence.”“In the whole unfolding of events for the past two years, I’ve seen only one batty conspiracy theory,” he said, referring to Dershowitz’s accusation that Finkelstein conspired with MIT’s Noam...