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...While they wrestled the crippled plane, the crew had a familiar drill to follow: the "classified destruction plan," which assigns each crew member a sensitive part of the plane to demolish. Some of the steps?erasing computer hard drives that recorded the day's mission?were manageable even if the plane's violent rocking kept the crew strapped into their seats. But the most sophisticated eavesdropping gear was supposed to be destroyed in order to be saved, smashed with hammers and hatchets or stuffed into weighted bags and dumped out of the plane's cargo doors. Once the plane managed...
...time news of the harrowing collision became public, a similar drill was being repeated in Washington and Beijing. Some on the front lines of the U.S.-China relationship were trying to save it, while others in the back seemed intent on blowing it up. Neither country was able to manage a clear response for days. In both, there are hard-liners, who seem to miss the days of cold war chest thumping, arrayed against accommodationists, who value, among other peace dividends, the $116 billion in annual trade. It was in the interest of both to let the other side know...
...Democrats are trying - Tom Daschle, introducing a rival energy proposal, accused Bush on Thursday of trying to "drill our way out of this problem... we cannot use our coming energy challenges as justification for an all-out assault on the environment." But they're likely to find what environmentalists have always found: Americans love to dream about a cleaner world, but when we find out what it'll cost, we'll usually take a good excuse instead...
Breathe in. Hold it. You know the drill...
...that produce greenhouse gases--will wield plenty of clout. While Bush told Congress last week that he would support efforts to conserve energy and develop alternatives to fossil fuels, he also declared that "we can produce more energy at home while protecting our environment." Translation: I still want to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...