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...dramatic aerial photo of the Maldivian city of Malé showed not only the vulnerability of low-lying settlements to rising oceans but also one of the contributors to global warming. The island's dense urban surface of streets and buildings leaves scant room for vegetation, which absorbs heat-trapping carbon dioxide. A sea wall may protect Malé from flooding, but more trees and parks would help as well...
...Fathers. I am not too stupid to see the danger of one-party rule, regardless of the party. It's ironic that the U.S. is trying to protect minority rights in the new Iraqi government while here at home Congress passes laws and approves budgets and judicial nominations with scant consideration of minority views. Klein advises Democrats not to be so obsessed with the legal system but instead to trust legislatures to solve thorny problems. After the congressional circus over Terri Schiavo, I am grateful to the Founding Fathers for having had the sense to create a judiciary whose members...
...attended a Texas state fair last year, you might have noticed a group of Japanese men dressed in jeans and boots, gazing at the sea of pickup trucks in the parking area. The men were from Toyota, which has been trying with scant success for years to persuade Americans to dump their Ford and Chevy pickups--the cowboy Cadillacs of the heartland--for a Toyota. Spending hours observing folks as they tailgated, hitched up horse trailers and hauled everything from plywood to goat sheds, the Japanese took copious notes, even if they still couldn't quite understand the American lovefest...
DEATH REVEALED. Philip D. Estridge, 47, easygoing, exuberant IBM vice president and "intrapreneur" who between 1980 and 1984 moved with record speed and scant respect for sacrosanct tradition to build the company's personal computer division into a 10,000-employee, $5 billion-a-year concern with one hit product, the revolutionary PC, and one miss, the hapless PCjr, whose production was stopped last April for lack of sales; in the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 near Dallas...
...getting short, folks. Less than 72 hours until the 115 elector Cardinals will stride into the Sistine Chapel and take a vow to "observe faithfully and scrupulously" the secret and solemn rite for electing the next Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Truly reliable information continues to be scant, but several emerging hypotheses offer an indication of how the voting may go. Though my Cardinal sources have been faithful to their self-imposed press ban, I have continued to talk to a number of Vatican officials and others who are in touch with Cardinals, about the possible scenarios...