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...sponsored by Senators Conrad Burns and Ron Wyden, and more notably, it is endorsed by the Direct Marketing Association. Can-Spam would make spamming a federal offense punishable by jail time and fines of up to $1.5 million. But it would also require that complainants have actively attempted to avoid spam by placing themselves on an opt-out list. Critics say opting out could become as disruptive as deleting spam is now. If all 23 million businesses in America decided to send you just one message a year, that would give you 600 emails a day to opt out from...
...incomes. The EITC was a terrific Republican idea, expanded by Bill Clinton. Fraud no doubt exists, and fraud is bad. But the money to be gained here is minuscule compared with, say, the estimated $20 billion lost each year from American companies that set up offshore headquarters to avoid taxation. (The Administration says it is hiring a thousand more agents to go after upper-income cheats.) Finally, the centerpiece of Bush's social policy--his bill supporting faith-based programs--collapsed, according to the now departed DiIulio, because the White House was more interested in a bill that pleased...
...Insurance Crime Bureau, based in Chicago. "For a professional crook, wheel locks are a very minor inconvenience," says Sergeant Joe Thrasher, who supervises California's Orange County auto-theft task force. So while a nice set of rims lends a certain amount of street credibility, it's best to avoid parking on the street...
...engineers are working on several ideas to combat corrosion, including protective coatings and cathodic protection - attracting corrosive chemicals to electrically charged plates of a dissimilar metal, known as sacrificial anodes, by running a weak electric current through the framework. The blades themselves will be cleaned with every rotation, to avoid a build-up of animal and plant life. Even with its unresolved issues, the system is a huge improvement over past methods of harnessing tidal energy, which aren't cost efficient and are also clumsy - they tend to create problems of silting and interfere with shipping and wildlife. Though tidal...
...roadmap" would require that groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's own Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade be dissolved, disarmed and their leaders detained. While Hamas may have been open to discussing some form of temporary truce, at least to the extent that this was necessary to avoid being blamed on the Palestinian street and in the wider Arab world for the failure of a peace plan, it can plainly see that the success of the "roadmap" would equal its own destruction. Hamas's decision to break off talks, then, is hardly unexpected - the fact that it came...