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Finally, transcending mere economic stupidity, Congress cut funds to organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which investigates environmental concerns such as global warming and ozone depletion. And NASA's loss of $716 million will jeopardize the Mission to Planet Earth program, which uses satellites to track changes in the planet's ecosystems. I suppose Congress' reasoning is that unforeseen environmental catastrophes will take our minds off the national debt...
Hussein Kamel: How can you use them while you are fighting the whole planet? Any mistake of using these unconventional weapons will make the major powers use nuclear weapons, which means Iraq will be exterminated...
Ancient volcanoes begin spewing smoke and lava across the plains of Siberia and don't stop for a million years. The sky all around the earth becomes dusty and foul. Eventually the planet is rendered so wretchedly uninhabitable that life itself is nearly snuffed...
...What planet are these white people living on, the ones who profess such shocked surprise at the Mark Fuhrman tapes? Haven't they heard what black people have been telling them all these years: that the ranks of major police departments all across the country are full of Fuhrman-style lying bigots? Not all cops, by any means, not even most of them, but enough to generate a steady stream of racially motivated police misconduct. Most of it never makes the national news--the hundreds of cases in which minority suspects are manhandled, beaten or even killed. But certainly...
...about it. It's a basking shark.'' Nothing mysterious. Nothing to get excited about. Once again, science had drained the life and beauty out of nature. Let's leave the deep sea alone and let it retain the one thing that seems to be increasingly rare on this shrinking planet--mystique. RANDY OLSON Los Angeles...