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...personal wealth [May 21]. Infatuation with the marvels of capitalism has made such talk almost heresy, but champions of free enterprise also need to heed common sense and common decency. Wouldn't we all be much richer if our entire human family were fed, clothed and educated and had access to basic medical care? L. Patricia Arias, DECATUR, GEORGIA...
...Agreeing on the final 10%, though, is proving difficult. That's because India insists on its right to reprocess spent fuel and demands access to reprocessing technology. Reprocessing, however, yields plutonium, which can be used both to fuel reactors and for making bombs. Under its "Separation Plan," India says fuel purchased abroad for civilian purposes will not be diverted for military uses, but some in the U.S. fear that accepting India's demand for reprocessing rights and technology will increase its strategic nuclear capabilities...
...least appears to understand that there has to be a delicate balance between the twin issues of security and the environment. "The solution has to vary location to location," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said last month to a room full of wary Texas landowners who fear access to Rio Grande water could be limited and border residents who have long viewed their Mexican neighbors (some of whom are family relatives) as friends and customers. "Obviously, at the end of the day, we have to make sure we can satisfy our operational requirements. But we want...
...years investment in 100,000 acres on the border," said Carter Smith, head of the Texas Nature Conservancy. Some 82 miles of fence is supposed to be built along the river, which wildlife, ranchers and farmers have all depended on, and conservationists worry that fences would block access to water for dwindling species like the ocelot...
...media has run lengthy screeds against the defendants. The shift in strategy is in some ways a reflection of a changing Vietnam. Nearly 60% of the population of 85 million is under 30 years old; they are increasingly Internet-literate, eager to join the global community and able to access news and information from the outside world. There's no point in downplaying a political crackdown because people will find out about it anyway, according to Martin Gainsborough, a political scientist and Vietnam expert at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Instead, the government is trying "to continually remind...