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...outpouring of support has been a revelation. For years, China's citizens couldn't watch the evening news without being reminded of their darker sides, of the grasping, reckless self-interest that has characterized China's headlong rush to become wealthy and powerful: stories of slave labor and child-kidnapping rings, rampant government corruption, counterfeit products, tainted food, dangerous toys and, lately, a crackdown on dissent in Tibet. But from a monstrous humanitarian crisis has come a new self-awareness, a recognition of the Chinese people's sympathy and generosity of spirit. The earthquake has been a "shock of consciousness...
...call Desormeaux a role model. That term would not apply to Dutrow. He remembers mixing cocaine and quaaludes one night in the 1980s and getting into his car. Luckily, he woke up on the side of the road, unharmed. "A miracle," he says. He was a reckless gambler, once betting $160,000 on a horse. He won that one, but he remembers losing a few $50,000 bets. Why risk so much? "'Cause I'm an idiot," he says. "Come...
...even before she had spoken, Europe's formidable farming lobby had mustered its defenses to fight off what is seen as reckless surgery on the E.U. subsidies, import tariffs and quotas...
...micro black holes is highly unlikely, Wagner and Sancho do raise the serious question of how much chance is acceptable when it comes to destroying the earth. At some point—not necessarily this point—experimenting with powerful force in biology or physics can become reckless. Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is about the destruction of the Earth by a substance called ice-nine, asks, “What hope can there be for mankind when there are such men…to give such playthings as ice-nine to such...
...refugees as the students in the Harvard Nakba Committee commemorate the 1948 dispossession of Palestinian Arabs from Israel next week. While the Palestinian refugee crisis is a tragedy in its own right, the committee has chosen to commemorate the dispossession of approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arabs by adopting the reckless, revisionist history of Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, an apologist for terror (he once stated, “I support Hamas in its resistance against the Israeli occupation though I disagree with their political ideology”) who directed the effort by the Association of University Teachers to boycott Haifa...