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...would gloss over his amiable dimness. In fact - and this may be the insight that gets the man elected - they've made it a selling point. This is a man who falteringly reads a letter written to him by grade-schoolers - "We hope that you will make the world safer. And that there will be no more bad guys" - and sound as if he wrote it himself. And yet, in Dan Quayle this was frightening; in George W. Bush, to some huge chunk of the electorate, it's a relief...
...obliged to seize this moment to build a safer, freer and more prosperous world, completely free of the tyranny that made the last century such a violent age." (USAT) -John McCain, in speech Tuesday night...
...much of anything, but still the Cellular Telephone Industry Association is requiring manufacturers to disclose how much of a cell phone's radiation may be absorbed by the body. The measurement, called the specific absorption rate, is regulated by the FCC. But whether a lower reading translates into a safer phone is anyone's guess...
...Camp David had from the outset been something of a Hail Mary maneuver, because it was always going to be a lot safer for both Arafat and Barak to return home without a deal than it would be having inked one their constituents might view as a betrayal. The Oslo Agreement had deliberately postponed the questions discussed at Camp David, and it was not for lack of trying that the negotiators there failed to reach agreement. The more chilling reality may be that no final agreement is possible yet between Israelis and Palestinians: Their competing claims on Jerusalem, as well...
...passage at $10,000 a head. A trip aboard one must have been like joining an exclusive but rather cramped and uncomfortable club. But part of its charm - to the small number of people who flew it - was that it was superior to the other planes, safer. For the price of a ticket, you were buying a guarantee...