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...might conclude that ecological ignorance unites all nations. Misanthropes will hoot as governments simultaneously beggar their neighbors and poison their own wells. With a brutal accounting looming for our profligate misuse of earth's amniotic fluid, the author offers ways that countries can secure more supplies. The most likely scenario is an old standby: steal water from others...
...best-case scenario for my campaign now," says Hagelin, "is that we get those federal matching funds, we conduct a high-profile and dynamic campaign, and we get swept into office the same way Jesse Ventura did. We have three months, and a brush fire is already building. There are no limits to what we can accomplish in this election season...
...polls. The Israeli leader's best hope still lies in concluding a peace deal with Arafat during the three-month parliamentary recess that began this week, and then calling an election himself that would serve as an up-or-down vote on such a peace agreement. Although that scenario remains a long shot, it's far from inconceivable for the simple reason that Arafat recognizes the current constellation of leaders - Clinton and Barak - as his best hope for achieving his goals. In other words, much as he blanches at the deal currently on offer, he may yet decide...
...House approved the legislation Tuesday by a vote of 417 to 0. Ros-Lehtinen's bill represented a completely hypothetical situation; no such case has ever presented itself, but that didn't seem particularly important. Instead, the representatives went to town with the scenario that Tim Russert single-handedly introduced into the national consciousness...
...true, this might explain everything. Gore's personality, difficult to grasp in American terms, seems perfectly coherent and natural if transplanted north of the 48th parallel. Indeed, as the Canadian Theorem settles into the imagination, one begins to wonder if there may have been some switched-at-birth scenario years ago that landed the infant Albert far south of the Canadian border, all the way down in Tennessee, while, at the same time, a tow-headed changeling from the chigger latitudes wound up in a snowbank in the Haliburton Highlands...