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DIED. S. DILLON RIPLEY, 87, patrician head of the Smithsonian Institution whose flair and insight guided it through its greatest period of growth; in Washington, D.C. During Ripley's two-decade reign as secretary, the Smithsonian founded seven research facilities and eight museums, including the U.S. capital's most popular, the Air and Space Museum. The number of annual visitors increased nearly threefold to 30 million...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Central Intelligence Agency have noted the security threats that necessarily arise from rapidly declining life expectancies and diminishing life prospects. How can a nation plan for long-term growth when its people are unlikely to live past 40? If AIDS continues its reign of devastation, the highest levels of government and civil society in many African countries will collapse. With them will go the prospects for peace...
...clean the air and fight climate change has a better chance of getting through a Republican Congress than anything Clinton and Gore proposed. Conservationists can find hope in this bit of history: the Clean Air Act was passed and the EPA was created during the Republican reign of Richard Nixon...
...Democrats have made a name for themselves as proponents of free trade. Their reign gave rise to NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, which, despite their flaws, are likely to raise the standard of living for both Americans and foreigners alike. Despite much progress on the issue of free trade between nations, however, the Democrats still can't seem to shake their opposition to free trade between the rich and the poor. This bifurcated stance on trade has recently reared its ugly head in the form of the Democratic Party's opposition to the Bush tax cut. The Democrats' latest...
...Scott MacLeod: Cheaper air travel may be a contributing factor, but the primary reason for the scale of the hajj today is that over the two decades of the reign of King Fahd, the Saudis have made a top priority of making the pilgrimage more accessible to Muslims. Fahd came to power when Saudi Arabia was flush with oil revenues, and he allocated many millions of dollars to upgrading the Holy sites in Saudi Arabia to make them more accessible to pilgrims. Using oil revenues, the capacity of the great mosque at Medina was expanded almost tenfold, while the capacity...