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...Unfortunately over the last five or six years, interference has become an accepted part of the game," Tomassoni says. "What it has done is taken the skill element out of the game and make hockey less exciting...
...disruptions for the townspeople, from reducing family time together to shortening attention spans. Robert Kubey, a psychologist and associate professor of communication at Rutgers University, says people who aren't used to so many TV choices could have a tougher time controlling their viewing. "TV is an incredibly seductive element," he says. "I defy someone to show me a place it was introduced and failed...
Released soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film's manic portrayal of the players in the American Cold War machine is no less relevant today. The "failure of the human element," as the president so delicately puts it, does not create the bomb crisis of Strangelove. It is the dreaded "Doomsday Machine," irrevocably set to detonate Russia's entire atomic arsenal at even the slightest nuclear strike and destroy every organism on the planet, which ups the stakes of the Cold War. This is the ultimate Bigtoy in the race for deterrence...
Above all, there is Iran, the region's other unstable element. When the Gulf War's outcome was certain in 1991, every state in the area feared Iraq's fragmentation. Turkey, a NATO ally, was worried that Iraq's Kurds would form an independent nation and incite Turkey's own 10 million Kurds to rebellion. But the larger fear was an extension of Tehran's influence via the establishment of an Islamic fundamentalist state carved from southern Iraq. That entity, bordering Kuwait, would threaten all the gulf emirates and the oil-rich eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Which...
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