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The loss of the satellite means that forecasters will have to make do with pictures sent from GOES 6, currently stationed over the Pacific. As a stopgap remedy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service are moving GOES 6 to a more easterly position, where it...
Rothenberg is merely the latest John Naisbitt apostle scurrying to discover, the latest mega trend. As the term has evolved, it has come to take into account almost every purported new idea under the Democratic Sun. Hence Jim Hunt's intensive efforts on the part of education in his home...
It happens dozens of times a day: trains traveling in opposite directions over the same short stretch of track, carefully diverted from disaster by red and green signals. Last week one such routine maneuver went tragically awry. Amtrak's New England Zip, heading from Washington, D.C., to Boston, rammed...
And yet the language of moral equivalence has become routine. Calling something the moral equivalent of war, for example, is a favorite presidential technique for summoning the nation to a cause. That metaphor, coined by William James, was last pressed into service by Jimmy Carter to gird us for the...
The most articulate and effective advocate of this position was Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, a former congressional aide to the late Senator Henry Jackson and a longtime opponent of SALT. Perle and Burt-"the two Richards," as they came to be known-were to...