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...Electrified third rail...
...Iraq, a few of them, perhaps, bad people, but most of them surely innocent. In a war, even if the U.S. can kill 100 Iraqis for every Westerner who dies, the economic, ecological and moral costs are too high. In Britain we have recently suffered catastrophic chaos on the rail network and a frightful foot-and-mouth epidemic that stripped the countryside of animals. In other countries there have been terrifying fires. All these events were disasters that did not need a terrorist to set them off. A single reasonably intelligent person could have caused any of them...
Iweala, who performed the fleeting rhymes and ever-changing rhythms of his spoken-word poem, “The Rail,” to intermittent audience cheers, said he was delighted to be one of the evening’s winners...
...tailed bandicoot is noteworthy because it encapsulates the contradictions conservationists face when they rail against the extinction of plants and animals. I drew the bandicoot example from the new book titled The Future of Life by Pellegrino University Research Professor E. O. Wilson, who spoke at ARCO Forum last week about the crisis facing thousands of species of plants and animals that have been driven to the brink of extinction in part by human activity. He makes a very convincing argument that humans can save untold thousands—perhaps even millions—of species by protecting their habitats...
...against House Speaker Newt Gingrich, has brushed off barbs likening him to his G.O.P. predecessors but has had a harder time deflecting attention from his wallet. He has received about $150,000 so far this year to lobby Congress for Phoenix civic projects (like the city's proposed light-rail system) that could deprive other Arizona cities of federal funds. "Are you running for Governor, or are you doing business?" asks Cecelia Martinez, director of the state's Clean Elections Institute...