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Still, there was no mistaking the sense of seriousness in the chamber Tuesday afternoon. "This vote is about providing moral leadership for a watching world," said Wisconsin's James Sensenbrenner. Lawmakers cited everyone from Galileo to the Pope to Nancy Reagan in their arguments over how best to balance protecting human life against relieving human suffering. Supporters of the tight Weldon ban warned of embryo farms and headless humans cloned to harvest their organs. "Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for experimentation," declared Tom DeLay. Those favoring Greenwood's more liberal guidelines...
...studies have concluded that most of these products--no matter who endorses them or how expensive they are--shape your midsection no better than old-fashioned stomach crunches. Some can even cause injury--like the $518.99 Body Shapers, which left electrical burns on some researchers at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Others, like the popular Ab-Doer, typically burn fewer calories than a gentle walk, according to a study to be published in September by the American Council on Exercise...
...accommodate shifts in population. What changes did the 2000 count turn up? The new numbers reveal a continuing shift of population from the Northeast to the South and West. For example, New York and Pennsylvania, both Democrat-friendly states, lost two congressional seats each. Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Mississippi are also losing one seat each. On the other hand, Republican-friendly states like Arizona, Texas, Florida and Georgia will each gain two congressional seats, while California, Nevada and Colorado will each gain one seat...
...parks, campers can find hot and cold water, city-style plumbing, cocktail lounges, automatic laundries, hairdressers, TV and enough electric power to light the city of Boise. Michigan authorities have already approved installation of additional electrical facilities to handle the increased load of electric frying pans and blankets, but Wisconsin has called a halt. Says Forest and Parks Superintendent Roman Koenings: "We have had requests to provide sewer hookup facilities for some campers, but we're not going to comply. We've gone as far as we're going...
Perhaps. But even if accepted at face value, the Wisconsin and Texas rulings raise vexing issues about enforcement and privacy. Wisconsin is anticipating possible paternity tests on Oakley's girlfriends' future children. Torres is being polygraphed regularly on his love life. That's a chat most public servants would probably rather avoid...