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...proxy vote for Plum Creek Timber shareholders on whether to adopt a code of environmental conduct called the Ceres Principles—a set of voluntary, environmentally-friendly guidelines, stressing accurate reporting as well as environmental protection??the CCSR did not follow the Advisory Committee’s recommendation and abstained. The Ceres Principles are a worthy code of conduct for corporations. Companies that follow the Principles must report annually on their environmental performance, information that is essential for policy makers to better maintain our global climate. Voting for one company to adopt the Ceres Principles is admittedly...
Although issues of interplanetary contamination may seem fantastic, they force us to confront the limits of our knowledge about life and where it might thrive. Some prominent scientists have criticized “planetary protection?? as based on dubious science, but there is humility and wisdom in this approach. It is true that if our current concepts of biology are correct, then there is virtually no possibility that an alien organism, not adapted for this world, could dangerously out-compete the locals who are marvelously fit to survive here...
...Planetary protection?? contains an implicit acknowledgement that scientific knowledge is never final or complete. We have been wrong before in the history of space exploration, and we should not wager our planet’s safety on the assumption that we need not worry about extraterrestrial life accidentally brought back to Earth. All of our ideas about life elsewhere are based on extrapolation from one example—Earth life—and science is not at its best when basing sweeping conclusions on a sample size of one. Although common sense strongly suggests that the threats...
Dershowitz said that “a narrow right to own guns for self-protection?? existed but that there is still room for substantial government regulations...
...accompanying animated video, your favorite cartoon musicians are back—and this time they’ve brought friends. Dub remixes have a long and honorable history (for another classic see Mad Professor’s remix of Massive Attack’s “Protection??), and Laika Come Home leaves one wondering why everyone doesn’t go for a dub restyling of their albums...