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...Noorzai case is a perfect example??of this Administration's botched war on terrorism and the Drug Enforcement Administration's handling of the incredibly stupid war on drugs. Haji Bashar Noorzai could have been a real asset in rooting out the Taliban. Intelligence on the ground is a most valuable resource. Has Noorzai's arrest really made a difference in heroin production? U.S. taxpayers are now going to have to spend millions to prosecute and detain him. The U.S. could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow through legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit...
Alas, there are too many other rival states around the world where hatred and radioactive isotopes mix?India and Pakistan, for example???for the principle of pre-emptive strikes to be condoned...
Eventually, the awe of science overcame the indifference toward it. As Lewis Thomas explains, "The more that is learned about nature, particularly the puzzling aspects?the queernesses being uncovered by the physicists, for example???the more engrossing it becomes." Adds Asimov: "We feel that if we do not understand science and the changes science makes possible, we may find ourselves overwhelmed...
...Hospitals are inherently expensive places. They must maintain elaborately equipped facilities?emergency rooms, for example???24 hours a day, even though those facilities are used only sporadically. They are labor-intensive: the general ratio is 2.64 employees for every hospital bed. Aggressive unions have forced hospitals to raise the once depressed wages of their nonprofessional people (cooks, cleaners, clerks) so sharply that, for example, wages and benefits now take 70% of the budget of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, vs. 35% only 20 years ago. The introduction of expensive machinery raises rather than lowers labor costs. For example...
...importance of reducing federal spending make an exception for R. and D. outlays; their potential benefits far outweigh the costs. Several economists suggest that the Government put up matching funds to spur university research programs into ways to improve productivity of service industries?dry cleaners and restaurants, for example???in which most companies are too small to undertake any significant R. and D. That approach has enormously increased the productivity of farming...