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...that is where we are. And we are here because Mr. Gore couldn't do what Richard Nixon did: announce, the morning after the election, that he would accept the official outcome. Great harm has been done by Gore's decision, and more is no doubt coming. If he manages to finagle his way to the presidency, his Administration is likely to prove true a dark saying: When you want...
...Palestinians' use of children as combatants should be condemned by all human-rights organizations. How can putting children in harm's way ever be justified? Parents must ensure that kids get an education and learn that the world is a diverse place where people need to cooperate and peacefully coexist. True peace comes when parents know that food and education are more important than control of land. DANIEL STUHLMAN Chicago...
...guesswork. "Fundamentally," says Bridge, 34, "we've come a very small distance from the days when I was in foster care." In short, he adds, Los Angeles County lacks the ability to know the full nature of the quality of care foster children actually receive, "the full extent of harm children may face in foster care and how to protect children from harm in the future...
...years of expensive investigations. It is the Administration, which decided to make the U.S. Navy refuel its vessels at dangerous ports in order to promote friendly political relations with hostile countries. It is also the Department of Defense, which allowed valuable assets of this country to go into harm's way without proper security precautions. And it is the captain of the Cole, who did not order a top-level security zone around his vessel to see that all approaching craft were stopped and checked. Young men and women were killed as a result of these actions. The loyal Americans...
Homeopathic preparations are hardly dangerous. Even those that use deadly poisons as active ingredients are so diluted that they should cause no harm. Many users swear that their minor ailments have been cured through homeopathy. But scientists argue that the placebo effect--whereby belief in a treatment will provide relief--is probably at work. It's likely that the symptoms would have disappeared anyway with no medical intervention...