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Civilized man, faced with a public danger of man's own making, turns to law; the U.S. and its allies turned there very early in their efforts to deal with the danger of atomic weapons. On June 14, 1946, the U.S. proposed in the United Nations the Baruch plan. Main features: i) the U.S. would turn its (then) atomic monopoly over to an international agency (with no veto power for members), and 2) the agreements of the atomic powers would be guaranteed by a workable system of inspection. This was no show-window design; it was perhaps the most...
...This administration has acknowledged the danger of such negative perceptions, appointing former Bush aide Karen Hughes as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy with the explicit mission of improving America’s image abroad. Yet it is the face on the ground that is most visible. And in the United Kingdom, that face now happens to be one of a Beverly Hills car dealer...
...good guys out from the bad has seemed to be relatively easy: a long-suppressed people has risen up in courageous protest against a remote and autocratic monarch who repeatedly unleashed a brutal police on them. But the longer the demonstrations for democracy go on,the greater the danger that the mass movement turns into a tyranny itself. By Monday, the U.S. State Department ordered all families and non-emergency staff to depart the country...
...gang-raped as punishment for her brother's walking with a girl from a higher tribal group. She deserves to be honored for her courage and determination in fighting the system and for continuing to shed light on the problems of rape and illiteracy, despite the personal danger and costs...
Even more insidious is the danger of overtreatment. With well-insured patients inclined toward hypervigilance, doctors afraid of missing something and a reimbursement system that rewards testing over talking, there is embedded in the system a dangerous impulse toward excess. Specialists are typically paid much more to do a procedure than the family doctor who takes the time to talk through the treatment options. A doctor who does a biopsy may be paid as much as $1,600 for 15 minutes' work, notes Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. "If you're an internist, you can easily spend...