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Copley also painted the populist stirrer Samuel Adams, whose writings were pointing the way to the Declaration of Independence. Adams was as poor as a church mouse and had to pose in borrowed clothes; the portrait was paid for by his friend John Hancock (he of the signature). It is the only Copley painting to show a political figure engaged in conflict. Tight-lipped, all Calvinist fervor and republican anger, Adams points with one rigid finger at the royal charter of the Massachusetts colony, while gripping in the other hand a screed of protest from Boston citizens. In its sharp...
Temperature and rainfall patterns would shift in unpredictable ways. That might not pose a problem for agriculture, since farmers could change their crops and irrigate. Natural ecosystems that have to adapt on their own, however, could be devastated. Observes Oppenheimer dryly: "They cannot sprout legs and move to another climate." Perhaps a third of the world's forests, he says, might find themselves living in the wrong places...
...president said deep cuts to student aid and basic scientific research which appeared likely several months ago now may pose less of a threat...
...their justifications for the tests are not entirely convincing, French scientists--and others--have largely refuted the notion that the underground experiments pose any immediate environmental threat. Since 1982 at least five expert studies--including one by antinuclear marine biologist Jacques Cousteau and one by the International Atomic Energy Agency-- concluded that France's Pacific tests at Mururoa and nearby Fangataufa atoll, conducted from 1966 to 1992, had caused no radioactive contamination and no significant ecological impact...
...close that escape hatch. And yes, we could have killed, wounded or captured every single soldier in the Republican Guard in that trap. But it would not have made a bit of difference in Saddam's future conduct. Iraq, a nation of 20 million, can always pose a threat to Kuwait, with only 1.5 million people. With or without Saddam and with or without the Republican Guard, Kuwait's security depends on arrangements with its friends in the region and the U.S. That is the strategic reality. The other reality is that in 1991 we met the Iraqi army...