Word: pacificism
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At issue are amendments to the 1972 act, which forbade imports of tuna caught using nets to encircle dolphins that for unexplained reasons swim together with tuna in parts of the Pacific. Before the act, this method suffocated as many as 500,000 of the marine mammals each year. After...
The epidemic of violence in America attacks the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society. Today in America, thousands of children will watch as 5,760 women will be beaten. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 15 children will be shot and killed by a handgun and 100...
That's because Eppard had served as the closest of advisers to E.G. ("Bud") Shuster of Pennsylvania, who after the 1994 election was suddenly elevated to chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, a position from which he can steer billions of dollars to specific projects and industries. And...
IN HIS ARTICLE, PAUL DAVIES PERPETUates the same unenlightened position that Bertrand Russell and others have taken in suggesting that human life is futile because the cosmos is ultimately doomed. At the risk of sounding like a New Age cliche, I say life is not about its end point; it...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: "The F-14 is a dog of an airplane to fly," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson after the third F-14 fighter crash this month led the Navy to order a three-day worldwide halt of all F-14 flights. "There's not much room for error, and...