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...Human Services Tommy G. Thompson. We are glad that Bush has moved, however belatedly, to establish an office to guide national policy on a dangerous and expanding health threat. We also hope that the emphasis on the international aspects of the AIDS threat foreshadows a serious effort to combat the global spread of the disease, which represents a national security threat to the United States as well as a human tragedy of vast proportions...
While it is admittedly difficult to combat the irritating sense of entitlement and selfish play of the young talent entering the league each year, Stern's efforts to clamp down on the drug problem have been less than adequate despite the recent surge in drug violations...
Nigerian police have arrested dozens of people involved in various incarnations of the scheme, and Secret Service agents have been stationed in Nigeria at the U.S. Embassy to help combat the scam...
...ecstasy supply that it wanted to try new strategies. In August the agency held an international conference on ecstasy, at which officials noted that for every major seizure of pills at an airport, perhaps millions more were slipping into the country. The DEA resolved to redouble its efforts to combat the ecstasy that was already circulating in U.S. cities...
Instead of asking just one expert to write an essay about the problem we face, Charles came up with the idea of asking 10 influential people to collaborate on a letter to President Bush urging him to develop a plan to combat global warming. Noted conservationists Edward O. Wilson and Jane Goodall signed, but so did leaders from several other fields, including Walter Cronkite, John Glenn, financier George Soros and Craig Venter, who helped map the human genome. And you may not know that Harrison Ford, when he's not busy on movie sets, is an ardent environmentalist...