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...Starting next July, De Beer's will certify that its diamonds come from clean sources, forcing its suppliers to accept "best practices" rules that outlaw buying from insurgent groups and stones mined by child labor. That's a sign, of course, that the company is feeling the heat. After all, diamonds derive their value from a combination of scarcity and demand generated almost exclusively by advertising, all of which leaves the industry vulnerable to negative publicity and the threat of consumer boycotts...
...sounds reasonable, but reputable scientists who agree with LeVake can be counted on one hand. "There are transitional fossils out the ying-yang," says Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education. "The problem is [antievolutionists] will never tell you what they would accept as a transitional fossil." Scott, one of the school district's expert witnesses against LeVake, says, "If you look at the content of his curriculum guide, it's the same thing that five years ago they called creation science. He's just left out the C word." Indeed, creationists have become...
...avoid parking any critically psychotic patients in jail, Gwen Turner, a retired chancery clerk and advocate for the mentally ill, proposed five years ago turning an empty downtown building into a crisis center where Natchez Regional Hospital doctors could volunteer to treat these patients. (The regional hospital won't accept them.) But she found little interest in her proposal...
...Liberation Army, backed by NATO against the Serbs, appear to be animated by instincts every bit as violently racist and intolerant as those of their enemies in Belgrade, and simply started their own ethnic cleansing campaign as soon as they had the opportunity. The West may yet have to accept a partition solution despite its discomfort with conceding that in some circumstances, people can't all just get along...
...must not be, guided by our views of whether the Boy Scouts' teachings with respect to homosexual conduct are right or wrong. Public or judicial disapproval of a tenet of an organization's expression does not justify the state's effort to compel the organization to accept members where such acceptance would derogate from the organization's expressive message...