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...other three clinics, which will be located at the Graduate School of Education, the Law School, and the School of Public Health, were newly scheduled yesterday...
...Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed a national emergency so that he could institute bank holidays. Roosevelt never formally ended the emergency, and in 1973 an astonished Senate committee discovered that, technically, it was still in effect - along with three other so-called emergencies that collectively had activated 470 provisions of federal law. For 40 years, the U.S. government had accidentally authorized the President to seize property, control production, institute martial law and restrict travel at any time. Congress rectified this oversight with the 1976 National Emergencies Act, which terminated all existing emergencies over the next two years and put in place...
...really is. Obama has neither seized property nor commanded any militia to combat swine flu. So far, he has only given the Secretary of Health and Human Services the ability to do things like allowing hospitals to transfer patients to special satellite facilities - something not usually allowed under federal law...
...law gives circuses until June 2010 to hand over their animals. Llamas, ponies and dogs, the most common performers here, can be easily reintegrated into comfortable habitats. And the country's performing tigers and bears have already been taken to neighboring countries by the owners of larger circuses to avoid confiscation. But small, family-owned circuses are unlikely to flee the country, which will leave two dozen lions and primates needing new homes...
...cages. A handful of countries, including Israel and Costa Rica, prohibit the use of wild animals as performers, but Bolivia is the first to extend the ban to all animals, including domestic species like dogs, horses and llamas. "We are extremely proud," says Bolivian Congresswoman Ximena Flores, the law's main proponent. (Read a Q&A about the illegal trade in wildlife...