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...three miles over which the U.S. claims national sovereignty. The current fight involves rights to the natural resources within the continental shelf, extending many miles from the coastline. International law recognizes any country's rights to such riches in the shelf adjoining it, but does not seek to distinguish between federal and local rights. In recent years, geologists have tantalized the Eastern states with reports of possible oil and gas deposits beneath the waters. One company, King Resources, has agreed to pay Maine $333,760 for exclusive exploration rights to 3,300,000 acres of submerged land eleven...
...different temperature range. Colors are arbitrarily selected. Warmest areas are represented by shades of red and orange. Medium temperatures come out in yellow and green, while the coldest spots are violet, blue and black. The advantage of a color thermogram over black and white is that most people can distinguish vivid colors more easily than shades of gray...
Walzer is sometimes careless with that peculiar vocabulary of political philosophy-the "careful words." as John Schaar calls them, which one must ponder deeply. It would help, for instance, to distinguish "obligations." the subject of the book, from "patriotism" or "loyalties" which also influence and spring from moral choices. These are not the same things. They operate at different but overlapping levels of awareness. Loyalty seems a more comprehensive and powerful motive force than "obligation." a word which implies formal duties and rational ranking of commitments. How do these fit into Walzer's hierarchy? A glossary or an expository chapter...
...public expectations (one could say, almost to everyone's amazement)- he defeated the incumbent, Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., by some five thousand votes. How this happened is an interesting story, but it is not my subject today. Mr. McCarthy then went on to be elected senator. He did not distinguish himself in his first term, however, and attracted very little attention outside Wisconsin...
...think that Americans are in the spasms of an identity crisis. How else to explain such a crowding around the flagpole? It is not an ignoble impulse-patriotism is not the last refuge of scoundrels. The last refuge is violent intolerance and, as the nation is wisely beginning to distinguish, there are scoundrels on either side...