American Geophysical Union: Are nuclear test bans verifiable?

The American Geophysical Union.

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American Geophysical Union. A new recipe for cooking up a 'mini solar system'.

17 JANUARY 2003 VOL 299 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org 336 C RE D IT :C A LV IN J .H A M IL TO N The four large Galilean satellites of Jupiter look like a doll’s version of our solar system. But planetary scientists now doubt that the two systems could have formed in the same way. According to the conventional view, the jovian system got its start when Jupiter was still in the midst of forming. All...

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This paper challenges the view that bans on kidney sales are unjustifiably paternalistic, that is, that they unduly deny people the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies in order to protect them from harm. I argue that not even principled anti-paternalists should reject such bans. This is because their rationale is not hard paternalism, which anti-paternalists repudiate, but soft pat...

European Union bans atrazine, while the United States negotiates continued use.

Atrazine is a common agricultural herbicide with endocrine disruptor activity. There is evidence that it interferes with reproduction and development, and may cause cancer. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved its continued use in October 2003, that same month the European Union (EU) announced a ban of atrazine because of ubiquitous and unpreventable water contaminat...