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...particularly when it carries an odor of race baiting. The more the tension builds, say the Minutemen's critics, the greater the risk that violence, avoided in Phoenix, could break out. "The Minutemen are getting stronger precisely because Bush and Congress are addressing immigration," says Tamar Jacoby, an immigration expert at the Manhattan Institute in New York City. The question is, Can Washington reach a solution before somebody throws a punch--or worse...
...Australian Special Air Service soldiers, who had been in the country for three weeks fighting Saddam Hussein's troops. But now the incident on the road from Baghdad to the Jordanian border on April 11, 2003, could bog the special forces in an ugly row. In August, international law expert Marc Henzelin filed a $1.5-million claim for compensation with the U.S. military for the alleged torture of two Iranian nationals, the suspected murder of a third Iranian and the theft of $360,000 by U.S. forces in Iraq...
FOOD PYRAMID The USDA's old food pyramid--with its diminishing stacks of carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables, protein, sweets and fats--may have been a license to overeat, as one expert called it, but at least it was comprehensible. The new pyramid, unveiled in April after long consultation with the food industry, is neither clear nor a call for moderation. To find out what those vertical color bars mean--and to build a customized food plan to fit your age, sex and level of physical activity--you have to visit the website mypyramid.gov
...reservoir to dilute the contaminants and instructed factories to avoid using river water. They also notified the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in Beijing, which coordinated the response. SEPA has issued conflicting statements about its subsequent actions. In a Nov. 24 statement it said that it "quickly" sent an expert team to Jilin and neighboring Heilongjiang province, which lies downstream. But in the same statement, SEPA said that Jilin officials didn't notify their counterparts in Heilongjiang until five days after the blast, on Nov. 18. The central question?When were all the relevant authorities informed of the massive chemical...
...vaccination as a less expensive way of controlling the spread of the virus in birds. "The government has allocated 134 billion rupiah [about $15 million] for vaccines, surveillance and prevention, but only a small amount for compensation, as mass culling is not the official policy," explains Mulyanto, an expert from the Agriculture Ministry's surveillance department...