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...We’re bound to get our first win against Lehigh. I’m sure about that,” said sophomore forward Matt Stehle...
...away from the Stryker, minimizing the round's ability to bore through its skin and injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such a problem? It did: future versions of the Stryker will sport four tons of custom-made, high-tech armor, but those currently bound for Iraq are early models, making the ungainly $100,000 cages a necessary, if temporary, fix. --By Mark Thompson
...benefit last summer. The sticking points now involve matters of Democratic Party theology, and they require a brief explanation. Medicare currently is a fee-for-service program, which means it works the way old-fashioned medicine did--essentially, you get whatever services you request. This is fabulously expensive and bound to grow more so as the baby boomers retire. Most Republicans and many moderate Democrats want to restrain costs by moving toward a system of managed care--which is what most non-elderly Americans now receive through HMOs and preferred-physician networks. The Medicare bill contains a six-city test...
...kidnapped and tortured union organizers, and ExxonMobil, which faces claims by Indonesian villagers that the oil company is liable for the brutality of local security forces - both companies deny these claims. "We want to establish that multinationals, which are among the biggest players in the global economy, are bound by the rule of law," says Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund. The law in question is a once-obscure statute drafted in 1789 by the first U.S. Congress: the Alien Tort Claims Act. Originally designed to combat piracy, it fell into disuse until 1980, when courts...
...firm hired goons who kidnapped and tortured union organizers, and ExxonMobil, which faces claims by Indonesian villagers that the oil company is liable for the brutality of local security forces. "We want to establish that multinationals, which are among the biggest players in the global economy, are bound by the rule of law," says Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund, which is backing many of the lawsuits...