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...crafting several smaller laws to cover whole families of drugs. Cannabinoids will join marijuana as a Class B drug, which will mean fines or up to five years in prison for possession and up to 14 years for dealing. BZP and GBL, meanwhile, will be Class C: possession could lead to a fine or up to two years in prison, and dealing comes with a sentence of up to 14 years...
...visit the front line of China's environmental struggle, there are lots of places to choose from. You could drop in on Changqing, in northwestern Shaanxi province, where on Aug. 17 hundreds of people stormed a smelting plant blamed for toxic emissions that left more than 850 children with lead poisoning. Or there's Wenping, in central Hunan province, where days later 1,300 children were found to have been sickened by pollution from a manganese factory...
Afterward, Kennedy said to me, "Well, I think it did work." Well enough that by the fall of 1982, he had a better than 3-to-1 lead over Walter Mondale for the '84 Democratic nomination. But within weeks, he announced that he wasn't running - in part, I believe, because he sensed that Reagan was stronger than he seemed and, more decisively, because his children strongly objected to another race. The next time - 1988 would be his best chance, I told him, because his opponent would be the first George Bush - he dropped out almost three years before...
...second installment of results, announced on Wednesday, President Hamid Karzai extended his lead over his top challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. After a dead heat the first day, he now stands at nearly 45% of the vote vs. 35% for Abdullah. Eager as Afghans and media outlets are for fresh information, the figures still reflect only 17% of the more than 27,000 polling sites nationwide. Moreover, they were drawn from less than half of the country's 34 provinces. As a result, even as some observers posit a Karzai victory, it's still hard to gauge where...
...economic downturn by encouraging business and curbing unemployment (this is the theory behind the New Deal and Obama's stimulus package). But that doesn't mean that deficits are good, either. The U.S. covers the shortfall by issuing more government bonds, which can drive up interest rates and lead to inflation. Deficits also make it harder for a financially strapped government to deal with unexpected disasters. In fact, the last U.S. budget surplus occurred in 2001, when Washington was able to use fiscal and monetary policies to cushion the fallout following 9/11 and keep the economy from tumbling into...