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...scolds, however, knew what they were talking about. In a solar system crowded with sister worlds that either emerged stillborn like Mercury and Venus or died in infancy like Mars, we're finally coming to appreciate the knife-blade margins within which life can thrive. For more than a century we've been monkeying with those margins. It's long past time we set them right...
...deciding when preemption is right or wrong is tricky business and creating a universal formula is nearly impossible—at least that’s what Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz argues in his latest book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways...
Rather than being a groundbreaking first work on the topic, Dershowitz settles for just the “first work” part, serving up a dulled analysis of what might have been a sharper knife...
...Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways
...More troubling events are almost certain in the months ahead. The Canadian deployment is the knife edge of an international strategy to shift the management of "stabilization" operations in southern Afghanistan from U.S. forces to the nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)--the transition is expected to be completed this summer--and Taliban rebels are already probing for weak spots in coalition defenses. "The insurgents are learning as they go," says Christian Willach, manager of the Afghanistan ngo Safety Organization. "In the coming months everyone is going to have a harder time...