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...course ridiculous to accuse even H2 buyers of lending support to terrorists--just as it would be silly to call them patriots because their big-ticket purchases help the economy. But the SUV boom does raise serious questions that affect everyone who owns an SUV or drives near them: Are these vehicles safe? How much are they fouling the air? Are they making us more dependent on oil pumped in places where people burn U.S. flags before breakfast? While no one should demonize SUVS, is it fair for the government to subsidize them with tax breaks and regulatory loopholes...
...beforehand to be especially sensitive to ethnic issues on campus. I agree that this may have been a blunder that was overlooked, a silly mistake of editors and writers exhausted from a long day. Yet when minority issues are so often misrepresented, when the consequences of such mistakes can affect the future of so many people, and when action is not taken to remedy statements that could and do offend an entire community, many begin to feel that there is something more than words being overlooked. Do more than say your sorry behind closed doors, publicly recognize this fault...
...different, humans would not be here to wonder how well-suited it is for us. Thus, the “God of physics” can do little to make religious belief any more relevant to scientists. It does not help or hinder the scientific enterprise, and does not affect the way we live our lives. This view of the Deity is therefore quite irrelevant to science...
...doctrine of preemption could not apply better to the case of global warming. Global warming is an issue that does not affect people on a regular basis, but could arguably be the most serious destabilizing national security threat in the 21st century. Global warming has the potential to change our earth far more dramatically than anyone dreamed possible. By the end of the century, we will have doubled the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, ravaged many of the oceans fisheries and destroyed a good portion of arable farmland. Rising water levels may cause the Bangladesh to descend into...
While she dismissed the possibility that a war with Iraq—or the absence of war—would affect research restrictions, Widnall said that the exchanges that her report and general concern has incited within the scientific community is particularly important as the nation continues to struggle with conflict between openness and restriction...