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Outside the developing world, crises like global warming that demand a worldwide response are not getting the attention or action they deserve. The tsunami highlighted how many people, particularly in the third world, live in low-lying areas near the ocean. The rise in sea levels caused by global warming threatens to flood these low-lying areas around the world permanently, causing massive dislocations of people and unimaginable loss of property. And that is just one of the dire consequences of global warming. In the long run, the gradual heating of the planet will change weather patterns and increase mortality...
...vendetta by conservatives in the U.S. government. Either Annan wasn't minding the store during the oil-for-food thievery, or he was part of the scandal. Since the U.S. pays a large share of the U.N.'s expenses, it is not heavy-handed of us to demand to know how some people received preferential deals to buy Iraqi oil below market price and then reap huge profits. The U.N. has been an anti-American club for years. One of the many reasons its credibility is questioned is the failure to enforce its resolutions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Scott...
Overturning Roe would not outlaw abortion. Such an action would only eliminate a woman’s right to an abortion, and the issue itself would be left up to the states. Prior to Roe many states such as California and New York already allowed for abortion on demand and others were quickly following suit...
...council is currently conducting a survey that Glazer hopes will shed light on students’ study habits, their sleep routines and their demand for late-night study space. The council plans to draft a position paper based on the results by next month...
...film sets Murray's dedication to an inner code of ethics--and his demand that others follow it--has earned him a reputation for being difficult. (During the making of Charlie's Angels, he and Lucy Liu engaged in a feud over creative differences, reportedly causing production to shut down for a day.) For someone who has built his life around the idea of team play and who continually mocks all pretense to self-importance, difficult is a word that cuts deep. "If it keeps obnoxious people away, that's fine," he says defensively. "It makes me think of that...