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...urgent military needs toward developing a missile shield, which he called "the most expensive possible response to the least likely threat we face." Instead, the Senate leader called for a reallocation for some funds away from missile defense towards improvement of "theater" missile defenses to protect U.S. personnel in combat situations from short-range and cruise missile attack, for counter-terrorism programs and for an under-funded scheme to help Russia destroy nuclear weapons...
Actually, the one-child policy has never been as rigorous as some outside China have thought. Ethnic minorities like Tibetans, for example, have never had any limits imposed on family. But the new law may combat at least one aspect of the old policy--the corruption that accompanies it. In villages, officials slap fines on citizens with extra children and share profits with doctors who push patients to get sterilized. By bringing decisions closer to the grass-roots, Beijing hopes to eliminate graft...
George W. Bush has yet to decide what, if anything, he will do to combat global warming. But he believes the Kyoto treaty is fatally flawed because it doesn't require developing countries to limit their fossil-fuel use immediately, as it does industrialized countries. So he kept the U.S. out of the discussions. In doing so, the Administration may have lost its last opportunity to help shape the international response to the problem. And Bush may be in danger of losing control over climate action domestically. After months of internal debate, the Administration is still "consulting" on the issue...
...combat air rage, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has asked airlines...
...generation after 1945, no man was deemed quite suitable for office unless he had served in the military, preferably in combat. Texas Congressman Lyndon Johnson had himself shipped out to the Pacific for a little while during World War II and returned with a suspect silver star. John Kennedy allowed his PT-109 to get cut in half by a Japanese destroyer, but performed with real heroism in rescuing his crew. It was the war record, and the emaciated, boyish charm, that captured the ladies of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and sent him to the House...