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...York Times has pointed out the amount of money owed to creditors at GM, some $27 billion, is about four times the amount that Chrysler had to deal with. The paper writes "General Motors' creditors number in the tens of thousands and include pension funds that bought the company's unsecured bonds." Will a court have more pity for that multitude than it would the few large firms that were Chrysler's creditors? Probably not, if justice is blind. Still, GM's list of bondholders is long enough so it could slow the pace at which a judge would...
Ethics and Extinction I applaud the tireless efforts to save endangered species and vanishing habitats, which you address in your cover story, but we need to begin to deal with the root problem: the exploding population of human beings [April 13]. How about a sterilization credit, like a carbon credit, to encourage people not to reproduce? We need to export and help finance information about all forms of birth control in all parts of the world, including the U.S. We have no trouble making decisions to limit the numbers of other species we deem overabundant...
...situation as a "mortal danger" to global security and bluntly demanded that the Pakistani military - a recipient of more than $10 billion in U.S. aid over the past decade - do a better job of earning that support. "We're wondering why they don't just get out there and deal with these people," Clinton said. "If you lose soldiers trying to retake part of your own country, it seems to me, that's the army's mission." (See pictures of the Taliban's move into Buner...
...Malakand Division, which includes Swat and Buner. The Taliban insist that it allowed them to maintain an armed presence; the military rejects that claim and made clear its intention to limit the Taliban from further advances. But the U.S. had deemed even the original Malakand deal, which was announced in mid-February, a dangerous concession to the militants, and Washington wants Pakistan's security forces to drive out the Taliban. It's not certain that such a rollback is on the military's agenda, although Monday's attack on a military convoy in the Swat Valley could prompt a stronger...
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