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...have long opposed abandoning the ABM treaty. A national missile defense has not yet been proven feasible, and many basic tests of the prototype systems have failed. A defense system will also be incredibly costly, and those costs come at a time when the Bush administration is seeking to curb expenditures on important and necessary antiterrorism measures. The administration already has suggested cutting a program to safeguard Russian nuclear material because it is too expensive. Sept. 11 showed that the greatest threat facing the U.S. is not a warhead on an ICBM, but a “dirty bomb?...
...Parts of the global economy (e.g. big airlines) have gone into black holes, but there are also financial winners, among them, surprisingly, a few airlines - the low-cost carriers. While some consumers curb their spending, others have a more profligate sense of carpe diem. At a personal level, many people may be nicer to their kids, more suspicious of neighbors, willing to relinquish basic liberties in the name of security. Some have gained faith in a divine power above this earthly mess . . . or lost it completely...
...scope of his war aims is astonishing: not only to beat al-Qaeda but revive the Middle East peace process, tackle "grinding poverty and pandemic disease" in Africa and craft new treaties to curb nuclear weapons...
...case you wondered how Al Gore was managing to keep himself useful during the war, http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news2/nn841101.html reports that he's taken the Bush family's new message of gender equality all the way to Lagos. On a speaking tour, Gore said greater women's empowerment would curb war, corruption and chaos. "Men of quality are not threatened by the emancipation of women," he added. But it was Gore's laugh lines that got the local media going. "Amid rib-cracking jokes, Gore spoke on a variety of issues, bordering on mother's supremacy, perfect marriage partners, cultural diversity...
...properly instituted, student rank would also help curb academic dishonesty. We will no longer have the problem of students helping each other with homework. There will be no more study groups and no more mooching. For the really creative professors, the system can be further adapted such that students who tell on cheating friends can swap up to take the cheater’s ranking...