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...religious cult in 1995 left 12 people dead and thousands injured, Japan has become increasingly aware that something is wrong with its well-ordered society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate. A year later, four people died after eating arsenic-laced curry at a village festival. In December 1999, a teenage assailant knifed and killed a seven-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper-delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. In December a 17-year-old boy went berserk...
...people dead and thousands injured, the Japanese have had to face the realization that something was becoming terribly unhinged in their well-ordered society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate. A year later four people died after eating arsenic-laced curry at a village festival. In December 1999 a teenage assailant knifed to death a 7-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. Last December a 17-year-old boy went berserk...
...Park and the Everglades over the last two weeks, the Rose Garden speech was more concerned with making Bush look environmentally conscious than it was in offering a brave new approach to the issue of global warming. The park visits were cooked up months ago to "to solve the arsenic problem," as one senior White House aide put it. The "arsenic problem," was the first blow to the administration's environmental image after the White House announced a review of last-minute Clinton-imposed regulations on the level of arsenic in the drinking water. The notion of a review...
...raised a skeptical eyebrow at many of his predecessor?s sweeping, last minute edicts aimed at protecting national wildlife and parklands - and has indicated he is open to the idea of drilling in Alaska and Florida?s protected lands. He has also weathered protest over his willingness to loosen arsenic standards in drinking water...
Then there's the cause of the environment, which W. has addressed in an unusual way by going soft on the rules governing CO[2] in the air and arsenic in the water. W. also wants to build more roads into the national forests, to make it easier for the drilling equipment to get in, I guess...