Word: factly
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Disabled people can lead very full, productive and happy lives if given the opportunity. The recognition of this fact by those around us will help decide whether we will succeed. By modifying our own man-made physical environment, by providing required services and by rethinking our culturally-induced attitudes, we all can help the disabled become remarkable less handicapped...
...fact, we are enormously powerful, with strength sufficient to deter any nuclear attack, and with a lead in many important measures of capability--such as in strategic nuclear warheads, where the U.S. leads 9000 to 4500. However, regaining dominant superiority in the strategic relationship over a determined adversary is impossible for either side. Instead, we have to adjust to the ambiguities of mutual deterrence and military equivalence, and have to restrain each side's weapons competition through balanced agreements which preserve our essential national security. --Sen. John C. Culver '54 [D-Iowa...
...much the same way colonies were assigned to European monopolies in the 19th century. OTRAG may remove the inhabitants and establish its own laws; its personnel are not subject to Zaire laws. The site borders on Zambia and Tanzania, and is only a few hundred kilometers from Angola--a fact that has made these independent countries understandably nervous. But rocket-testing, even on the huge scale envisioned, will bring no prosperity to most of the inhabitants of Shaba. Pushed off the better land by Europeans and Mobutu's cronies, with no industrial jobs available, they continue to live in poverty...
...entitled "Sun Day Sermon" (Crimson, May 1), Dr. David Jhirad, Acting Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), was misquoted as having said that solar energy could provide for the entire energy needs of the United States before the end of the century. The error was mine. In fact, on the basis of a comprehensive two-year study performed by Dr. Jhirad and his colleagues, Dr. Jhirad concludes that aggressive implementation of the solar option (encouraged by federal purchasing programs and tax incentives), combined with efficient fossil-fuel use, could result in solar energy providing one-quarter...
...though sometimes upstaged by more dramatic defects such as procrastination, carelessness and venality. These larger historic faults were undoubtedly in the mind of John Burns when he wrote in The Sometime Governments (1970): "We expect very little of our legislatures, and they continually live up to our expectations." In fact, many state legislatures have improved in some respects over the past two decades, attracting members of higher caliber, for example, and tightening up their staffs and internal organization. But their fascination with trivia has, if anything, got worse; microphilia has become chronic and endemic in the statehouses...