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...Hillary is not without her bad history. When Obama and Edwards were two lawyers, years away from entering public life, Hillary was making a mess of revolutionizing the country’s medical system, a worthy project that was politically botched. Had she not demonstrated again and again since that time that she has learned from these and other mistakes we would not be writing this editorial...
...teeth. But the idea caught on, and now, years later, more than half the states have adopted some version of the Oklahoma cocktail. Judges in courts across the country are scratching their head over the odd concoction, and the Supreme Court has effectively halted all executions to untangle a mess of belated questions: How much risk of torture is too much? How many safeguards are necessary? What makes a punishment cruel and unusual...
Technology has gotten us into the climate change mess, and we assume that technology will get us out of it. Hybrid cars, wind turbines, algae biofuel - businesses and policymakers alike are searching for the technological fixes that will decarbonize our lives. But the deeper problem may be how - and where - we live our lives. The dominant pattern of development in America - large houses and sprawling, auto-dependent suburbs - requires a heavy input of fossil fuels and an output of carbon emissions. The adoption of cleaner technologies will take us part of the way, but what we really need...
...place. In 1995, a tour bus burst into flames on Pennsylvania Avenue, across from the White House. The heat peeled the paint at Blair House, the presidential guesthouse. In the 1980s, there was a string of fire and smoke incidents under President Ronald Reagan, including one in the mess. But none did much damage...
...body writhes in pain as he uses all his energy to shout, “I am not mute!” From that point forward, Dominic receives special attention for amassing extraordinary talents and develops a renewed interest in life. Quickly, the film breaks apart into a meandering mess, ripe with unbelievable plot lines. Doctor Stanciulescu (Bruno Ganz) realizes that Dominic, 70 years old when hit by lightening, has begun to reverse the aging process, both in physique and memory. He also has gained superpowers: He can converse with a double of himself who aids him in intellectual queries...