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Whoops. Rove realized he had the wrong church. He pulled a U-turn in the middle of the highway, but by the time they finally made it to the right church, steam was coming out of Bush's ears. "He's not a man who hides his emotions," said someone who was in the room. "He was pissed." They started practice 40 minutes behind schedule, and by the time it was over, they wished they hadn't started at all. Bush had bungled and fumbled his way through the 90 minutes. "It was not a crackerjack performance," said a senior...
Unfortuantely, my endurance couldn't match the cars. I spent the full 24 hours, switching from driver to passenger in two-to-three hour shifts, eating whatever vegetarian offerings I could find at highway rest stops...
...large Zaire outbreaks Ebola emerged in areas so remote that there was little, if any, threat of spread to other countries, including the U.S. Gulu, however, is connected to Uganda's capital by a paved highway, and flights from the now-prospering Kampala depart daily to London, Paris, Johannesburg, Nairobi and other African locales. The threat of spread in this case is a bit more real...
Money talks--a lot louder than any environmentalist can. This was evident in your article about paving a 435-mile road through the Amazon rain forest [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 16]. Perhaps it is difficult for Brazil to look past the short-term economic gains of paving highway BR-163. But who are we Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit...
...just say that for the average, thoroughly mainstreamed voter, libertarianism poses some intuitive problems. (The party has placed candidates at the state level, but is nearly invisible on the national polls.) The environment, for instance - the founding fathers didn't have to worry about toxic waste. Or highway maintenance. Or, more broadly, what is known as "the public good" - isn't there at least a mediator's role for the government in some domestic matters...