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...science writer, I have to commend the coalition for this attempt to introduce physics into the national discourse, which surely needs an intellectual lift, but there are problems. Big cars are safer only for the people who happen to be riding in them at the time, much the way that Uzis are safer only for the people holding them. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration doesn't count the number of lungs damaged by ozone from automobile exhaust. The birds and seals suffering and dying along whatever pristine coast an oil tanker chooses to run aground on don't make...
NATION: A Safer World...
...dismantling of the Soviet threat does not mean the world has become a safer place with no conflicts. We will need a global peace force. The U.S., acting through the United Nations on behalf of the rest of the world, is perhaps an embryo of a peace force at the world level...
...played up the scientific research: collecting snow samples, conducting experiments in meteorology and monitoring the team's physiology. But the expedition emerged mainly as an exotic sporting event. To date, few scientific findings have been published, and critics point out that such information can be obtained in cheaper and safer ways...
...supervisor insisted that such flexibility was not possible. He reiterated that I should have been told to go to Holyoke Center and said that this lapse on the part of the dispatcher was an anomaly. I pointed out that going to Holyoke Center might not have been substantially safer, since hostile people were all around the triangle and might easily have followed me there as well...