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...Bush didn't stop there. In a cynical attempt to win over voters in Texas, Bush promised to sell 150 F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan. This shattered a 1982 Sino-American agreement in which the U.S. promised to reduce arms sales to Taiwan gradually and not exceed the level being supplied at the time. By disregarding this agreement, Bush has given China a reason to abandon its pledge to stick to weapons treaties...
...they mean something else, I suggest George and Dan should take a step back to see that the depth of love in a relationship between two women can meet or exceed that of any traditional family...
...court convicts Garvey of the official charge of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, he faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine that could exceed $500,000, said Prosecuting Attorney David Meister...
...best hope for both humanity and other life-forms would be to cut human propagation in half, so the world's numbers do not exceed 8 billion by mid- century. (The only event in which the earth would achieve zero population growth or even shrinkage would be some environmental or social catastrophe.) The huge run-up in human numbers has foreclosed most options and shortened the amount of time available to come to grips with rising threats to the environment, contends systems analyst Donella Meadows, co-author of Beyond the Limits, which updates the controversial 1972 blockbuster The Limits...
...Kaufman, who misfired with the genre a few times, used to say, "Satire is what closes on Saturday night." If satire is pointed enough to be good, it tends to alienate potential customers. It usually grows dated long before recouping its costs. And it must be truly outlandish to exceed reality...