Reid had pleaded guilty to eight charges - including attempted murder and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

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The Jan. 28, 1988, ruling found the Criminal Code did not strike a fair balance between the rights of the fetus and the rights of a woman to control her own body.

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A largely unrecognised danger of the obsessive hysteria surrounding genetically modified foods is crying wolf. I fear that, if the Green movement's high-amplitude warnings turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other more serious warnings. The evolution of antibiotic resistance among bacteria is a vicious wolf of proven danger. Yet the menacing footfalls of this certain peril are all but drowned out in the caterwauling shrieks over genetically modified foods, whose dangers are speculative at most. To be more precise, genetic modification, like any other kind of modification, is good if you modify in a good direction, bad if you modify in a bad direction. Like domestic breeding, and like natural selection itself, the trick is to introduce the right new DNA software. The realisation that software is all it is, written in exactly the same language as the organism's "own" DNA, should go a long way towards correcting muddled thinking.

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A political scientist testifying for the government spoke about studies in the United States where the early release of East Coast votes is common. He said studies have shown that when that happens, Westerners are less likely to vote because they feel the election results have already been decided.

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''In the early days, a company could say, in effect, that if you accumulated enough of the gene, you could fill a vessel with it and use it as a paperweight - there was the utility,'' said Bruce Sunstein, a partner at Bromberg & Sunstein LLP in Boston, only partly in jest. In practice, companies might claim that the gene could be used as a probe to identify the same gene in unidentified genetic material. The patent seekers still might not know what the gene actually did in the body or how it played a role in disease.
But patent examiners became pickier. They began to insist more that applicants demonstrate specific uses for their discoveries, as required by patent guidelines. The stricter approach was codified in a January 2001 publication in the Federal Register.

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Waste from resort is converted into usable water in two ways, both at a recycling plant for initial treatment, and then separately through a three-step purifying process of UV light filtration, ozonation and ultra-filtration. The final ultra-filtration step removes all suspended solids from the liquid including all biological matter, alive or dead. The resulting water is even free of viruses, bacteria and spores from cryptosporidium or giardia. The treated wastewater is then used in conjunction with meltwater and creekwater from surrounding areas to create snow.

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About two years after AOL completed its $106.2 billion purchase of Time Warner, the old media veterans from Time Warner are running the show and the key architects of the deal have been forced out amid calls from angry investors that view the merger as a failure.

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