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...think a few kids actually got hypothermia and one kid hit his head and had to go to the hospital, so they called the races on Saturday for safety’s sake,” Johnson said...
...sake of both Hong Kong and Beijing, the future political arrangements of the city need to be settled soon. The Basic Law, Hong Kong's post-1997 constitution, which is based on a Chinese agreement with Britain on the colony's handover, allows that direct elections for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council are Hong Kong's eventual goal. But the document does not specify a road map or timetable toward it. While China's leaders are committed to the Basic Law, they seem in no hurry to embrace direct elections. "They're anxious about moving too fast," says...
...tourism [March 5], you didn't point out the enormous amount of energy required for a brief thrill ride to space. The unmanned space program has brought advances in communications technology and defense systems. The sole significant justification for manned spaceflight is more spaceflight. Manned spaceflight for exploration's sake is one thing. Trying to justify it on economic grounds is another. John Day Powell, Ohio...
...March 12]. He rejoiced in Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's deft political outmaneuvering of the Democrats over a terrible war that Kristol himself helped sell. His callousness about the suffering of thousands of Americans and millions of Iraqis is outrageous. Maybe he should stop smiling, for decency's sake...
...even became a vegetarian. For most of my freshman year, I ate salads and tofu at every meal. Today, I can’t even look at those glistening white cubes without getting queasy. Then, I was willing to stomach them for an ideal: not for the sake of the animals or my health, but for the environment. Meat, I would’ve been quick to tell you, is a bigoted inefficiency to which only those of us in flabby America are privy; Annenberg was my church and fake meat my pulpit. (After reading Michael Pollan?...