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...Latinos are especially at risk, because they are more likely to be in inferior schools," Orfield said. "This will limit the education opportunities for Hispanics, especially with the recent removal of bilingual education in states like California...
Last week, in a remarkably irresponsible move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the reversal of a standard proposed at the end of President Bill Clinton’s term that would have reduced the amount of arsenic permitted in drinking water by 80 percent. The current limit, which was set in 1942, has been widely judged as inadequate to keep America’s drinking water safe. However, to the jubilation of the mining industry and other arsenic producers, the Bush administration is holding to the old standard, claiming that it will eventually be lowered but only after more...
...intellectual property is not a valid concern. Rather, the point is that there are a number of ways to address the issue without undermining the core insight of the MIT initiative. Professors could, for example, be more selective in posting unpublished or original material online. But to simply limit access to information, in the way that Harvard and other schools plan to give access only to alumni, doesn’t settle intellectual property concerns and runs antithetical to the very potential of the Internet...
Over 200 people had to be turned away because the auditorium was filled to its fire code limit...
...provisions on issue ads should also be retained in the House of Representatives. The bill limits television advertisements by for-profit corporations or labor unions that refer to a specific candidate within two months of a general election. This measure will help prevent corporations and unions from exploiting a loophole in the election law that allows them to buy campaign ads as long as they avoid the magic words “vote for” or “elect.” In compensation, the bill will use the Federal Communications Commission’s authority over broadcasters...