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Like a siamese twin, Jeb Bush may now have to lay down his political life so that his brother can survive. It wasn't supposed to come to this. Seeing peril in leading George W.'s postelection fight, Jeb recused himself, leaving the heavy lifting to his secretary of state, Katherine Harris, who relished the task and delivered the goods. But last week Jeb emerged from his self-imposed exile to comment on the effort by house speaker Tom Feeney, his friend and former running mate, to summon the legislature into special session, perhaps as early as Wednesday, to name...
Technology has always been a double-edged sword, and we don't have to look further than today to see both profound promise and peril. It is important to understand that these developments are not emerging from a few isolated projects but are the inevitable result of many thousands of competitive efforts. We would have to repeal free enterprise and every visage of economic competition to prevent the ongoing progression of these technologies. In the end, we will have no choice but to address the threats emerging from technology through a combination of ethical standards, technological "immune systems...
...product of her relatively low profile, Mattison will not be able to count on that advantage anymore. If there is any lesson to be learned from the Crimson's first two tournament games, it is that those teams who overlook Ashley Mattison do so at their own peril...
...this deadly filovirus merits international concern, not only in its own right, but as a harbinger of things to come. We ignore the current epidemic in Gulu, Uganda at our collective peril...
...reappearance of the Ebola virus does not signal such a need. Rather, it is warning us that we ignore the essential public health needs of the world's poorest nations at our own peril. Unless the wealthy world is prepared to assist in the development of strong infrastructures in the poor world, microbial diseases will remain a threat to us all. Investment need not be prohibitively massive. The good news is that most public health interventions are pretty cheap, and highly cost-effective...