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...experience is not something that torments me. It disgusted me but didn't torment me. If I had killed women and children, I would imagine that would haunt me. In the brutality of combat, life is cheap. Then you come back to the civilian world, where life is precious. It's surreal. The only thing that kept me sane was reading Catch...
Water, not oil, is the most precious fluid in our lives, the substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources. If we have no clean, drinkable water, we are doomed. As the 6 billion passengers aboard Spaceship Earth enter a complex new century, few issues are as fundamental as water. We are falling far short of the most basic humanitarian goals: sufficient and affordable clean water, food and energy for everyone. "I cannot bear to watch the nations...
...There had been much handwringing all night about how to play the game, and the way they felt about getting this far, and montages and such - indeed, there was precious little else. But the path to the Los Angeles soundstage was straight. Colby and Tina were serious players, each undeniably talented. Keith was just a hanger...
...gourmet chef from the Motor City - and that ought to tell you something right there - is a one-man Three Stooges. He's ruined the Rice-A-Roni, gone wading after lost supplies with the tribe's precious matches in his pocket, and lost his padlock in the high grass while Colby scampered to victory. He's made it this far having won only two immunity challenges - and he had to beg Tina for one of those...
President Bush's proposed missile shield has been dubbed the ultimate faith-based initiative, and it's easy to see why: Asking America to spend tens of billions of dollars on a system that has thus far shown precious little technical ability to do its job certainly requires a substantial leap of faith - not least because the threat it's designed to counter appears to rank pretty low on the scale of clear and present dangers to U.S. security...