Word: question
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...presidential candidates, they range from naysayers to true believers on global warming. Is it really happening? Undoubtedly, said Gore, his party's top contender, when TIME questioned the major candidates. He added, "There is overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is contributing to global warming." Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, another Democratic hopeful, acknowledged that it was a "serious threat." But the G.O.P. candidates sounded less certain. Texas Governor George W. Bush, his party's front runner, and Elizabeth Dole both agreed that the earth is getting warmer but professed to be agnostic about the cause, saying only that...
...conservative. Its charity was "an early and significant supporter of the religious right," says William Martin, author of With God on Our Side, a history of the movement. As the DeMoss Foundation demonstrates its willingness to pour tens of millions into reaching a mass audience, it inevitably courts the question, What are its larger social goals...
...smoke has cleared/ From the ashes some glimmer of the truth appears," Richey sings in the lustrously plaintive Didn't I. Then, in the song's chorus, all objectivity evaporates--"I did the best I could/ Didn't I? Didn't I? Didn't I?"--and by repeating the question, she makes it both an accusation and a child's plea. The song is a jeweled showcase for a shattered psyche...
...turns out the Mario in question (Andretti, of course) had his sons hone their driving skills with Skip Barber, a retired racer who owns a chain of 20 driving schools where he gives corporate executives a chance to pretend they are real men. I wanted to pretend to be an executive...
Will future generations regard the vanishing Quelccaya ice cap as a false prophet or as a climatological Cassandra whose warnings were not heeded? Ohio State's Thompson, for one, believes nature has already answered this question. An ice cap has no political opinions, he observes. "Quelccaya is melting because the earth's temperature is going up," he says, "and it's foolish to argue that...