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...other cases Bush has refused to reconsider, where the evidence is shakier, the evidence of guilt in McGinn's case is strong, and the DNA test may not change the outcome. Let's hope that's not why Bush chose McGinn for a reprieve. It would be a step backward in his maturation if he were to use the case to show he is always right. Matters of life and death are one test in which no gentleman would settle...
Raman managed to steer the boat backward to the shore, and the sinking boat managed to dock safely. No one was hurt, though the boat was totaled. Raman still has the broken-off bow as a reminder and souvenir...
...universally held by those of us actively engaged in this field. You said, "Norse hunting techniques and agriculture were inadequate for survival in [the Little Ice Age's] long chill, and the Vikings never adapted the Inuit's more effective strategies for the cold." If the Norse were that backward, how did they survive for even one generation in their remote new land? Greenland represented a daunting challenge even in its warmest periods. Instead, the Norse managed well for about a half-millennium, maintaining their own culture while adapting to changing fortunes. The arbitrary date, A.D. 1450, given for when...
...like anarchy. Fully 97% of the population growth that will bring our numbers up to 9 billion by the year 2050 will take place in developing countries, where conditions are scarcely better than they were a hundred years ago. In many cases, in fact, history seems to be moving backward (in modern Zimbabwe, to take but one example, the average life expectancy has dwindled from 70 to 38 in recent years because of AIDS). To travel today is to see a planet that looks more and more like a too typical downtown on a global scale: a small huddle...
Countries like Egypt and Algeria in the middle of the political spectrum are most vulnerable short term. Both took tepid steps toward democracy in open, multiparty elections in the 1980s, then marched backward in the 1990s. Both began the 21st century facing unprecedented social pressures from soaring populations they can't feed, educate, employ or house. Egypt, home to 67 million people (almost half the entire Arab world), produces an additional 1 million mouths to feed every eight months. In both countries, leaders have stalled on reforms. The result has been a decade of violence. More is to come...