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Less sinister than such threats, but more persistent and pervasive, is the danger of cultural homogenization of content brought about by the loss of local control. Experience with limited deregulation in radio ownership should serve as a warning to the FCC not to deregulate other media. Since ownership restrictions in radio were relaxed in 1996, several large national corporations have snapped up local radio stations in droves. Clear Channel Communications, for example, now owns over 1,200 local radio stations across the nation...
...faced from chemical and biological weapons in the first Gulf War—and will face in the Second Gulf War—seems to be outside the scope of Hasbro’s realism. Unfortunately, this reflects a larger problem: Americans don’t fully appreciate the danger posed by these weapons, and even when they sense the danger, they don’t understand its imminence...
...must be stopped from going nuclear, because if he attains atomic weapons then the West will find itself liable to the same sort of blackmail from Baghdad that it is currently forced to swallow from Pyongyang. A compelling argument, indeed, if it could be shown that Iraq is in danger of going nuclear. But the nuclear dimension is the weakest element of the weapons-of-mass destruction indictment against Baghdad: While the UN inspectors concur with Washington's contention that Iraq has failed to account for substantial stocks of chemical and biological weapons, they have taken issue with U.S. claims...
...changed the political dynamic at the UN Security Council for a simple reason: While most members may be inclined to accept at least a significant proportion of the evidence offered in Powell's vivid multimedia presentation, they don't share the conclusion that Iraq represents a sufficient danger to its neighbors or the West to justify the risks of war. But if Powell's allegations of Iraq's systematic efforts to deceive and evade the inspection and disarmament process are born out by chief weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix in his Valentine's Day report, even the most reluctant Council...
Summers spoke slowly as he praised the lost astronauts for being heroes who faced physical danger in the pursuit of knowledge...