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...crisis. All of America’s annual 100 billion plastic bags are made from 12 million barrels of oil—0.15 percent of the U.S.’s total yearly oil consumption. And a Waste Characterization Study for California in 2004 concluded that the bags account for just 0.4 percent of the total content of landfills...
...lack of due process, transparency, and judicial oversight, policy assessments and analysis have become increasingly suspect. Are these often pre-emptive arrests preventing terrorism? Are they really needed? Policy debates are difficult without access to information and media inquiries. Furthermore, the Bush Administration does not take into account the fact that detainees are real humans who have real families. By denying these captives a fair trial, the U.S. government is only further antagonizing many people—each of these extraordinary renditions may result in thousands of people turning against the U.S. If one of the reasons behind terrorist attacks...
...Compare the public silence about inaccuracies in Smith’s film with the dull roar surrounding the recent release of “21”, based on Ben Mezrich’s (already not-quite-true) account of MIT’s card-counting Blackjack Team. Based on the trailer alone, one can tell the production team knows well mainstream America’s unflagging yen for aesthetically pleasing Caucasians cavorting in shiny cities and beating all odds (Ocean’s 11 through 16, would you stand up please...
...economics conference, former University President Lawrence H. Summers said that “intrinsic aptitude” could partially account for the dearth of female scientists at elite universities...
...Naimi had no good news for those hoping for some relief from sky-high prices. He said it could take "at least 50 years" for the world to comprehensively adopt alternatives to the oil and gas that today account for about 90% of world energy consumption. Naimi castigated Western governments that have pushed biofuels as the major energy alternative, which has ravaged forests and agricultural land. Biofuels, he said, "will produce just 6% of energy consumption by 2010, and has not even reduced greenhouse gases." Instead, the world's most powerful oilman advocated "truly renewable sources of energy, like solar...