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...does not have a tropp shortage; it has misdeployed the troops. The thousands of active-duty U.S. service members sitting on their duffs in Europe and Japan far exceed any alleged shortage in Iraq. If the slow-moving, bureaucratic Pentagon would take the obvious step and redeploy some of these troops, there would be no talk of a shortage...
...promote greater acceptance of the U.N. among the world's poor and dispossessed. U.N. headquarters could, for instance, be moved to a large cosmopolitan center in Australia, Asia or Africa. It might also be possible to consider limiting the time for a chosen location to a period not to exceed 20 or 25 years. Trond Foyn Oslo, Norway Man-Made Deity "Is God in Our Genes?" was interesting but hardly surprising [Nov. 29]. The answer to the basic question of whether religion was created by man from cues sent from above or a sense of the divine evolved...
That sounds pretty scary--except that it's not true. What will actually happen in 2018, according to the Social Security trustees who oversee the program, is that the money paid out in benefits will begin to exceed the amount collected in taxes. And since Social Security will run a surplus until then (and has been running one for some time), it has billions available that it can tap to fill the gap. Even under conservative estimates, the system as it stands will have enough money to pay all its promised benefits until 2042 and most of its obligations...
Summers emphasized that “the University is very committed to being environmentally responsible,” and he said he expected Harvard to make a direct clean energy purchase that would far exceed any potential revenues from an optional termbill...
Global warming is an impending catastrophe that has the potential to far exceed the scope of last week’s tsunami. Scientists are in almost complete agreement about these ramifications, although they may disagree about its causes. Fortunately, global warming, like hunger and poverty, is a crisis that we can help to avert. The United States and China let out the bulk of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A government effort to reduce the release of pollutants domestically and to make a bilateral reduction treaty with China would go far to improve the global situation. Even if the current...