Word: protecters
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...Democrats and even a few moderate Republicans on the committee to move a step closer to a less expansive version of the law. In one of its most controversial provisions, it would eliminate a requirement that the entire habitats of endangered species, not just the individual creatures, must be protected. Young says the change will protect property owners; environmentalists say it will doom animals. Even in his gentler moments, Young's distaste for elitist environmentalists is clear: he once called them a ''waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual bunch of idiots...
...think it's going to be a huge issue against some Republicans in '96,'' says Representative Sherwood Boehlert of New York, who five years ago helped amend the Clean Air Act to discourage acid rain. "[Voters in '94] damn sure didn't vote to dismantle the agencies that protect our water, our air, our land...
Hoping to keep his party from being pegged as Earth bashers, Newt Gingrich, who once interrupted a day of foreign-aid budget cutting in the House to ask his fellow Republicans to restore money to protect the African elephant, has established a Republican Task Force on the Environment, manned by moderates like Boehlert and Maryland's Wayne Gilchrest. The group has yet to meet...
EVERYONE WANTS TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN FROM the online kiddie-porn creeps, but who's going to protect us from the children? At least I assume my harasser was 14 or under, given the tenor of the conversation in the America Online "chat room" I wandered into one afternoon. Typical contributions were typed entries like "Cockle Doodle DOOO" and "Hey Hoo HAAAA," or, as a topic for serious discussion, "What's the craziest drug you ever took?" So when someone we'll call "Demonboy" flashed me an invitation to accompany him into a "private room," I assumed he was just...
...anyone with a conscience tolerate such a defense? What are the obligations of the U.S. military when stationed on foreign soil, and why aren't those obligations being enforced? In their blatant and callous disregard for human decency and proper military behavior, the servicemen waived their right to protection under the agreement, and should be held accountable to the laws of Japan. The arcane postwar agreement should no longer protect them. Their confession should serve as their indictment and as grounds for a court-martial and a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. military. MARIE-EILEEN ONIEAL Lowell, Massachusetts...