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...when other, more conscionable leaders could no longer condone the injustices of that regime. The only freedom Thatcher truly valued was the freedom to amass wealth, the more the better. Stephen Odili London The profiles in "60 years of heroes" proved that no matter where you are on the planet, you can positively change the course of the future. The odds stacked against you do not matter. Thanks for the inspiring stories. Deinde Falase Abuja, Nigeria Raise a Glass As someone who likes good food and wine, I was delighted to read about how a substance called resveratrol...
...hallowed as the coming incarnate messiah of entertainment. Whether or not you worship the PS3 or detest it, though, you probably won’t be able to play it anyway—at least not for several months. The most powerful and expensive gaming console on the planet is also the most difficult to score. On the first weekend of the Japanese launch, suppliers sold out of the nearly 90,000 allotted systems. The same occurred stateside with more than $200,000 worth of consoles sold—and therein lies the beauty of Sony’s strategy...
...that people understand them. John Graham, formerly the administrator of the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, says risk analysts suffer no end of headaches trying to get Americans to understand that while nuclear power plants do pose dangers, the more imminent peril to both people and the planet comes from the toxins produced by coal-fired plants. Similarly, pollutants in fish can be dangerous, but for most people--with the possible exception of small children and women of childbearing age--the cardiac benefits of fish easily outweigh the risks. "If you can get people to compare," he says...
...acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher." michael meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft had fallen silent after nearly 10 years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth-more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project." RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in 1995 of murdering...
Going even further, Drake glibly noted that “we haven’t given up the hope that Yale can have fun. ” What planet do these people come from? Last I checked, Yale’s tailgates were a virtually undisputed success. Does anyone that made the trip to New Haven last year really expect that our straight-jacketed, fenced-in, police-state tailgate will vaguely approach the fun of the more anarchic atmosphere outside the Yale Bowl last November...