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...world needs is a safer, more stable nuclear umbrella. That probably means fewer nukes in fewer hands - when Obama talks about strengthening the non-proliferation regime and stepping up efforts to secure loose nukes, he is on the right track. Nuclear weapons are only helpful if they are never used...
...what happens when the human tendency toward conflict hooks up with the violent possibilities of the industrial age. The version of this story we are most familiar with is the Nazi death machinery, and we are often tempted to think that if Hitler had not happened, we would never have encountered assembly-line murder. (See TIME's photo-essay "Fun with Photoshop: Obama's Other Awards...
...opportunity to tell gay critics who have expected so much of him to express what he expects of them. The hate-crimes bill, he said, had become law only because those who believed in it had thoroughly educated the public about why it was important. "Countless activists and organizers never gave up," he said. "You held vigils. You spoke out year after year, Congress after Congress." (Watch a gay-marriage wedding video...
...What makes you think unsullied optimism is such a good idea? Americans have long prided themselves on being positive and optimistic - traits that reached a manic zenith in the early years of this millennium. Iraq would be a cakewalk! The Dow would reach 36,000! Housing prices could never decline! Optimism was not only patriotic but was also a Christian virtue, or so we learned from the proliferating preachers of the "prosperity gospel," whose God wants to "prosper" you. In 2006, the runaway bestseller The Secret promised that you could have anything you wanted, anything at all, simply by using...
...eliminate cookies in the hope that someone else would pay for this amenity. The FAS is, of course, not unique in having to adjust in these difficult financial times, but the future certainly looks brighter knowing that individuals like Ms. Yun clearly care about helping others that they have never...