It's a piece of legislation which is packed away in a little box and left on a shelf.

The state legislature is currently considering legislation that would create a buffer zone.

The Chinese censorship mechanism is not just looking for subversive elements. It is also looking at the ideas of 'moral rightness' in society. For example, there are controls on things like pornography, or other elements that the state deems as unpalatable for the population.

Given that China will be using coal for the next 50 to 70 years it is important to develop alternative energy sources as soon as possible.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated against them in virtually ever sphere of life, lending sanction to a racial ostracism that extended to schools, churches, housing, jobs, restrooms, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, orphanages, prisons, funeral homes, morgues, and cemeteries. Politicians competed with each other by proposing and passing every more stringent, oppressive, and downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together.)