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...think we want to go down this path. Luckily, jury damages like this are always appealed and often drop in monetary value once out of the media limelight and once the victim feels the glow of success. Mere show or a check drawn on the tobacco companies' account, however, this settlement is a worrisome event. It's time to either give the tobacco industry a break or have the FDA regulate it as a drug. Kicking Big Tobacco when it is down is just...
...Lane and the staff members driving the "man-aboards" retrieval devices wear heavy sweatshirts because the facility is kept at a chilly 50 degrees, with a mere 35 percent humidity. These conditions, Lane says, are "an attainable level recommended by preservationists...
...chance for American scientists to formally urge caution," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "And it represents another pebble in the pan tipping the scales away from the seemingly indiscriminate use of modified food technology." Americans may not follow the lead of our European peers and panic at the mere mention of engineered foods, but science will force us to buckle down over the next few years and formulate a plan for our modified food industry - hopefully one that treads the fine line separating paranoia from complacency...
...almost goes without saying that the mere addition of pasties and G-strings is hardly a well-documented method for keeping out the riff-raff. To believe otherwise, as Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, "is nothing short of a titanic surrender to the implausible." Even the plurality opinion expressed similar skepticism. Nevertheless, the court upheld the ordinance on the grounds that the city did not necessarily need to prove a correlation between nude dancing and crime. It needed only to show that the ordinance would somehow further the city's interest in controlling such negative effects, rather...
...fall of the Berlin Wall was supposed to bring on the end of history, a time when great power confrontation would give way to the mere frictions of the global marketplace and the lotions of consumerism would keep everything running smoothly. Maybe someday. What we know for now is that all around the edges of the peaceable Banana Republic, history is still being made the old-fashioned way, with land mines and machetes...