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...Economic turmoil in Mexico would have spilled north of the border, just as polluted water and diseases do. For Clinton, especially, it was axiomatic that the U.S. could not be immune to economic, environmental or health crises elsewhere in the world--that such "soft" issues posed as real a danger to American interests as "hard" ones like terrorism. "People looked askance," Clinton told me last week, "when we said that AIDS and other diseases were a security threat, that environmental degradation was a security threat. SARS is just the latest example." You don't have to visit Toronto to know...
...states' overall budget troubles are the biggest danger for muni investors, and ample reason to be very selective. No state has defaulted on its general-obligation bonds since the Great Depression, so stick with these "GOs" or with "essential service" bonds issued by water, sewer or even school authorities. Medium-term maturities of about 10 years are the bond market's sweet spot today; prices here are less vulnerable to rising interest rates--a certainty at some point--than are those of longer-term bonds...
...seem on the wild, speculative fringe of possibility. And second, we should remember that while new discoveries will offer marvelous prospects, they will also have a dark side. Some fear that nanotechnology could prove to be one of the 21st century's darker technologies, as potentially disruptive and dangerous as nuclear weapons. Nanotechnology is just one of a suite of advances - including biotechnology, genetics and robotics - about which some ethicists, politicians, consumer watchdogs and even a few scientists are concerned. They fear that these developments may have spin-offs so dangerous that, when the genie is out of the bottle...
...danger is that there won’t be a major figure in University Hall thinking deeply and broadly about the holistic undergraduate experience,” Gusmorino says. “The U.C. needs to be particularly vigilant...
...know when you go away from academia you run the danger of losing the skills that you had developed as a student,” Flier said. “It seems to me that in her particular case she was able to use the time away to her advantage and developed a great sense of focus and organization...