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Thailand's population data-base system -- the largest of its kind -- has become a symbol for an alarming trend. Even as Western nations place new limits on what they permit computers to do with sensitive personal data, some of their biggest computer firms have begun selling to Third World governments systems that are far more invasive than any permitted back home. In some cases, though not necessarily Thailand's, computers with vast potential for misuse are being sold to governments with long histories of human-rights violations...
...Protagoras' maxim that "Man is the measure of all things." Such a principle helps us through the thicket of environmental argument. Take the current debate raging over oil drilling in a corner of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Environmentalists, mobilizing against a bill working its way through Congress to permit such exploration, argue that we should be conserving energy instead of drilling for it. This is a false either/or proposition. The country does need a sizable energy tax to reduce consumption. But it needs more production too. Government estimates indicate a nearly fifty-fifty chance that under the ANWR lies...
...economic as well as nationalistic reasons. Without Eritrea, with its long Red Sea coast, Ethiopia would be landlocked. International food aid, essential in combating famine when the rains fail, enters the country primarily through the Eritrean ports of Massawa and Assab. The Eritreans have pledged that they will permit goods to flow freely through their territory, but many Ethiopians wonder whether they can trust such promises from a group that has fought Addis Ababa for three decades...
...issue, however, is not going to go away until NATO leaders decide on some legal mechanism that would permit out-of-area deployment of its forces. That might happen at a NATO summit next fall in Rome. The alliance will not & complete its adjustment to a new era until it prepares to engage not only the Soviet dragon but also the pit bulls snarling around NATO's flanks...
According to Theresa A. Amato, as attorney for the Litigation Group, "the Freedom of Information act is designed to permit access to exactly the type of information The Harvard Crimson seeks...