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Whether rich nations will in fact make short-term sacrifices for the sake of long-term gains is debatable. Certainly, the traditional response has been for every country to try to maximize its own immediate wellbeing, and the devil take the hindmost. But the Club of Rome insists that altruism is possible if seen not as charity but as necessity. The alternative, it repeats over and over again, is mankind's lemming-like rush toward disaster...
...sake of comparison, Cornell's offensive line outweighs Harvard's defensive front by an average margin of 224 lbs, to 205. The Big Red's defensive line averages 220 lbs., while Harvard's offensive blockers only go about...
...root of the dispute is an ideological conflict that has flared up in the past and been papered over for the sake of unity. The militant Marxist P.F.L.P. opposes not only Israel but also such "reactionary" Arab monarchs as Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal. Although Faisal has generously subsidized Arafat's Fatah guerrillas, the King has never given a riyal to Habash. Beyond that, the P.F.L.P. still clings to the goal of creating a secular Palestine to replace Israel in which Jews, Christians and Moslems would live together. Fatah and the less...
Imagine the elderly, the disabled, the poor, declaring with Rand's protagonist, John Gait "... that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for [me]." Suffering on low, fixed incomes, they can't even live for themselves. Well, let 'em eat dog food...
...idyllic "island of stability and increasing prosperity in Latin America" you describe in your story on Mexico is indeed "no more." Perhaps it never was anything but a façade, a plutocrat's paradise based on a purely quantitative development for development's sake that postponed the demands for political, economic and social justice...