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This quote comes to me from a book by Nick Hornby (an Englishman with a predilection for the Arsenal soccer club of north London) called Fever Pitch, a wonderful autobiography about a life of following one's favorite sport with the life-and-death passion of a trapeze artist...
...special forces troops removed their helmets and flak jackets to show they were not in combat mode but were officially cooperating with the Haitian army. Even so, Haitian officers watched sullenly in the compound of Camp d'Application last week as the Americans dismantled Haiti's only arsenal of heavy weapons. Church bells joyfully tolled noon as U.S. vehicles towed the few Haitian armored cars and artillery pieces through the camp's wide iron gates, past a mural proclaiming HONNEUR, DISCIPLINE, COMPETENCE. Along the road leading to Port-au-Prince, a crowd of civilians applauded and cheered...
Following a review of the nation's nuclear deterrent, the Pentagon announced it had decided to keep the current arsenal essentially intact, given the uncertainties of the post-cold war world order. By and large, U.S. nuclear forces will not be reduced beyond changes necessitated by Bush-era treaties with Moscow...
...Clinton Administration, suddenly unconvinced that Russia has the wherewithal to cut its nuclear arsenal as planned, is hedging its bets on military security. Defense Secretary William Perry today complained that Moscow has fallen behind in dismantling of thousands of nuclear weapons called for under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The apparent reason: "internal turmoil and old thinking," Perry said, as well as the high cost. In response, he said, the U.S. will keep its long-range missiles till Russia gets off the dime. BTW: Russia still has 25,000 nukes -- enough to destroy the world many times over...
...microbes. But anyone who reads today's headlines knows how vain that hope turned out to be. New scourges are emerging -- AIDS is not the only one -- and older diseases like tuberculosis are rapidly evolving into forms that are resistant to antibiotics, the main weapon in the doctor's arsenal. The danger is greatest, of course, in the underdeveloped world, where epidemics of cholera, dysentery and malaria are spawned by war, poverty, overcrowding and poor sanitation. But the microbial world knows no boundaries. For all the vaunted power of modern medicine, deadly infections are a growing threat to everyone, everywhere...