Word: alarms
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Late last week, Iran announced its success in enriching uranium. This event, together with the recent poisonous words uttered by the extremist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are cause for alarm...
Iran's announcement that it has mastered the art of enriching uranium was greeted with a predictable chorus of alarm. But despite expressions of grave concern from Washington and London to Moscow and Beijing, Tehran's nuclear "breakthrough" doesn't necessarily diminish chances for a diplomatic solution. On the contrary, Tehran has long insisted it wants a compromise that both addresses Western concerns and upholds what it says is its "right" to enrich uranium, particularly in a research setting. The latest announcement may well give the Iranians room to show greater flexibility at the bargaining table without appearing to back...
...there was another reason for the diplomatic pair?s alarm; the Washington maxim that all politics is local. With Iraq teetering on the edge of civil war, the poll numbers of both the Bush and Blair governments were sliding and their political effectiveness was diminished. ?The American people, and the British people, and others who have sacrificed need to know that everything is being done to keep progress moving here,? Rice said at a press conference in Baghdad on April...
...report on farmers' protests throughout the Chinese countryside elicited heartfelt sympathy from readers who are appalled by that government's corruption, land grabs and failure to provide basic services. But there was also alarm over what a destabilized China might mean for its neighbors "Inside the pitchfork rebellion" [March 13] suggested there may be a revolution in the making in China. What will happen if 900 million oppressed farmers rise up to get justice and revenge? It would be naive to applaud such a development. History shows us that revolutions never lead to what is hoped for. Instead, chaos spreads...
...anger surrounding all that exploded recently when NASA researcher Jim Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a longtime leader in climate-change research, complained that he had been harassed by White House appointees as he tried to sound the global-warming alarm. "The way democracy is supposed to work, the presumption is that the public is well informed," he told TIME. "They're trying to deny the science." Up against such resistance, many environmental groups have resolved simply to wait out this Administration and hope for something better...