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...Deloitte/Ipsos MORI Delivery Index released last Friday, public expectations of what the government will accomplish as it tries to rejuvenate public services are now at an all-time low. Only 33% think they'll get better; only 22% expect the nhs to improve, which is a big drop from last year, thought to be caused in part by the government's general malaise. Yet further paralysis, as Brown tries to squeeze Blair out without provoking a rupture - "regicide is suicide," says a Minister and Blair ally - seems inevitable while Blair remains Prime Minister...
...soon as prices drop again, of course, I know that I'll stop playing my futile games and do as alcoholics do when they pick up the vodka bottle after an interval of sobriety: guzzle all the unleaded I can pump. It might be my final opportunity before the Saudi royal family announces that it's relocating to Malibu because its nation's wells are all tapped out. Drive 55 m.p.h. again? That's fine for optimists, but pessimists zoom full throttle toward the catastrophe that they have given up trying to forestall. It's a dangerous attitude...
...deny that while the world needs labor organizers, it also needs businessmen who understand that well-paid workers with health care plans are productive workers, just as while the world needs public school teachers, it also needs politicians who will not sell out their constituents at the drop of a hat. The world needs our best, most talented, most caring, and most thoughtful people doing work that helps people directly, but we also need them everywhere else. When those who prioritize service first scoff at entire professions, they leave these professions open to those who place the notion of public...
...sitting on a public bench, reading a book. Then Van Themsche killed a pregnant Malian babysitter and the native Belgian two-year-old for whom she was caring. His hunt for further victims was stopped only when a police officer shot him in the stomach after he refused to drop his weapon...
...Andrew. But the period from 1991 to 1994 was one of the quietest in history. And while the Pacific has seen an increase in hurricanes and typhoons in recent years, the southwestern Indian Ocean has remained stable and the northern Indian Ocean has actually seen a drop. Around the world, all that amounts to a statistical wash. "It's an unresolved issue," says atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "but we do not see any increase at all in the frequency of hurricanes globally...