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...fact that smoking and pollution will cause millions of deaths in China, a nation of 1.4 billion people, may not come as much of a surprise. But a new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health quantifies the staggering human toll...
...didn't have any of those feelings because I was thinking it can't be real. It was more like, "It's finally over." It got so close and yet so far so many times. It's amazing, not only because we got it done, but because, for a nation, it has taken us so long...
...your last term in Congress. How do you hope your colleagues will take up this fight after you leave? There are many things that I would still love to be doing, which makes my departure so hard. I would think the next thing to do is to introduce national legislation to start a program for a 50-50 match, where the federal government matches the local government in the construction of facilities that would be a local place for the mentally ill to be taken care of. We're a nation that is really hell-bent on trying...
...Other nation-states understand the consequences of not lending a hand. At the Assembly last week, China initialized programs to promote clean energy in Africa and Saudi Arabia committed $500 million to enroll 24 million children in primary school. The U.S. only pledged a paltry $61 million over five years, despite the fact that the interconnectedness and global character of all the present crises is becoming painfully apparent. Irony is everywhere. If you think the cash for a $700 billion dollar bailout is coming from taxpayers during an election year, think again: It’s coming from Beijing?...
...humorists have all but canonized already. Folks like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, who have flourished under the current administration, now find themselves in a perplexing and significantly un-funny dilemma: a risky change or more of the same.Luckily, after the map has been rent all asunder and our nation bleeds red and blue again, we’ll still be able to look toward the horizon for another installment from Sarah Vowell. Vowell, a humorist and contributing editor for public radio’s “This American Life,” is a unique and moving voice...