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...Bush will visit Thursday. These are places where talking policy is a treasured and complex art. There and elsewhere on his trip, Bush will face European Union members who are ideologically alien to him (11 of 15 E.U. governments are center-left) and wary of his reputation as a reckless cowboy, a unilateralist with scant regard for his allies. And when he caps his tour Saturday with Putin, he'll face his biggest challenge. The Russian is opposed to Bush's plans for a missile-defense system, and Bush needs to change Putin's mind. If Putin goes along...
Often it is college administrators who have to deal directly with the most reckless imbibing. In studies through the 1990s by the Harvard School of Public Health, the percentage of college students who reported binge drinking within the previous two weeks remained steady at 44%. (Binging was defined as five drinks in a row for boys and four for girls.) In an age in which campus officials are increasingly seen as proxy parents, this is worrying to them. Legal liability is of particular concern, especially after M.I.T. last year chose to avoid a lawsuit by paying out $6 million...
...about the way he performed for the press after his NATO meeting n Brussels on Wednesday. He said something there to the effect of "There's people out there trying to blow us up, and we've got to stop ?em." To the Europeans, that epitomizes their idea of reckless cowboy talk...
...phone usage. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 42 states have introduced laws barring drivers from using hand-held cell phones. Most lawmakers see the ban as a win-win proposition - while irrefutable supporting data are still in the pipeline, preliminary evidence suggests that drivers are more reckless when they?re on the phone. And if simply keeping people off their cell phones while they drive (or just putting the darn thing on a dashboard console), thus leaving the driver with two free hands, can cut down on the expense, human cost and inconvenience of traffic accidents, most...
...also worth noting that gays are coming out so much younger. Openly gay boys can be found in high schools across the U.S.; they are bound to be as reckless as any other horny teenager. Why not? They have grown up in a time when pharmaceutical firms seem to have no shortage of HIV wonder drugs, when Bill Gates is spending $100 million to find a cure, when a Republican President names an openly gay man to run the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. Getting HIV seems not so much a death sentence as an annoying pill-taking...