Balance sheet.Border Busters Congress slaps the INS INS abbr. 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service 2. International News Service Noun 1. INS for slapping whistleblowers. The agency had transferred and threatened employees who said the borders were a mess. Seed Scene Biotech firms Syngenta and Monsanto pledge to make public aspects of the technology behind genetically modified rice. On the downside On the Downside is an EP by the San Diego, California band Counterfit, released by Alphabet Records in 2000. It was the band's first EP, recorded shortly after the members had relocated to San Diego from Fairfield County, Connecticut. , anti-GM activists say it still won't make the crops safe. Magic Beans Ward Connerly revs up the Racial Policy Initiative, an attempt to get Californians to vote on racial bean counting. Should his intiative pass, the state stops most of its check-box labeling schemes. Up Periscope periscope (pĕr`ĭskōp) [Gr.,=view around], instrument to enable a person to see objects not in his direct line of vision or concealed by some intervening body. Its essential parts are a tube, prisms, lenses, mirrors, and an eyepiece. A fed-up Kentucky lawmaker introduces a bill to buy the USS Louisville from the Pentagon and turn it loose in the Ohio River. The target: Indiana's state-licensed riverboat casinos. Watt Answer Forget microradio: Picoradio looms. Berkeley's Wireless Research Center builds a wireless network that uses almost no power yet can control complex systems such as high-rise thermostats. Bad Water More than a decade on, the final independent counsel report on Whitewater concludes with what was nearly self-evident from the start: Bill and Hillary did the kinds of deals that got other folks indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. . Dutch Treat A Dutch court rules that file-trading company Kazaa is not responsible for copyright violations committed by people using the Napster-like program. It is the first such "safe harbor" decision for swapping software. White-Shirt Team The FBI'S data net is so low-tech that it has to overnight mug shots of terrorists to far-flung offices. The bureau has turned to the genealogists of the Mormon church for expertise on how to build name-tracking databases. Big Lie The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (or CBDTPA) was a proposed US bill which would have prohibited any kind of technology which can be used to read digital content without Digital Rights Management (DRM), which prohibits copying any content under is as fraudulent as the name implies. As law it would ban MP3 players or any recording device that wasn't licensed by Hollywood and the music industry. Rotten CARP The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel Three-member ad hoc board empowered to make decisions regarding ratemaking and distributions of copyright royalties collected for compulsory licenses under the Copyright Act of 1976. relies on 25 defunct webcasters to set royalty rates for Net radio. Only Yahoo! is still in business after trying to pay the royalties in those "model" agreements. Pants Police The Louisiana Supreme Court The laws of Louisiana and the Supreme Court of Louisiana both have a rich history based in the colonial governments of France and Spain during the early eighteenth century. The current Supreme Court traces its roots back to these beginnings. says sodomy sodomy Noncoital carnal copulation. Sodomy is a crime in some jurisdictions. Some sodomy laws, particularly in Middle Eastern countries and those jurisdictions observing Shari'ah law, provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the is still illegal. Could a round-up of conventioneers prowling the Big Easy for a "date" be next? Nah. Click-Click Boom Anti-gun activist Sarah Brady buys a .30-06 hunting rifle for her son, skirting a criminal background check for him. Such "loopholes" must not just be for gun nuts. Closet Cleaning Rosie O'Donnell comes "out" on national TV years after the tabloids said she was gay. Her avowed a·vow tr.v. a·vowed, a·vow·ing, a·vows 1. To acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly; confess: avow guilt. See Synonyms at acknowledge. 2. To state positively. concern for gays who want to be parents seems more like an attempt to keep the public from shrugging. Mail Bomb First-class mail use is stagnant, so the cash-poor Postal Service hikes the stamp price to 37 cents. The mailmen blame last fall's anthrax scares, but the General Accounting Office says a new business model is needed. |
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