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...than mandate," says Sampson. There is also a financial consideration: breeders pay the club $14 for each of the 250,000 annual registrations. Even the club's critics, however, admit that in recent years it has made progress in promoting some good health practices. There is a joint testing scheme with the British Veterinary Association for hip and elbow dysplasia and for eye diseases - although the take-up in some breeds is less than 10%. It also funds health research by individual breed clubs - and of the 750, many are working hard on their dogs' problems. Other funding has indirectly...
...what accounts for all the gloom surrounding the web? Bad business - not bad ideas. Analysts and venture capitalists and investment bankers all collaborated in a massive ponzi scheme - which left regular investors holding the bag. Don't blame the cocky web entrepreneur for squandering your money; blame your investment banker...
...Like many experts in the U.S. and Europe, the Russians don't really believe the scheme is feasible right now, and they are happy to watch the Americans spend large amounts of money on an unproven technology. Rice is discussing a defense proposition whose architecture doesn't exist right now. She's emphasizing that whatever is built will be transparent. The Bush people clearly have come some way in that they have held their ground and convinced the Russians that will go forward. Rice's discussions are not about whether a missile defense system will be built, but about...
...INDICTED. JORGE VIDELA, 75, former Argentine dictator, for participating with five other South American despots, including Chile's Augusto Pinochet, in a scheme to kill leftist opponents; in Buenos Aires. Videla's junta sized power in a 1976 coup, and from then until 1981 collaborated with the other governments to hunt political exiles in their own countries. His regime is linked to the deaths of up to 30,000. SENTENCED. KHALFAN KHAMIS MOHAMED, 27, to life in prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury...
...painful memory, the governor will need a villain besides himself. Nationwide? Putting aside the new tilt that a Republican slaughter in California would do the House, two-thirds of America believe Bush and Big Energy are in bed together, and cooked up this whole crisis as a moneymaking scheme. If a judge agreed and wrote Davis a $20 billion check? At the very least, it gives the Democrats a nice one-two punch with...