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...course, at the government level, more can always be done to ensure that people’s everyday conservation efforts are echoed in the policies. The biggest obstacles are China’s rapid industrialization and the prevailing sentiment that becoming the next superpower is more important than saving some trees. Much of the pollution can be traced to factories (many owned by foreign entities), which swallow up local resources and leave a path of smoke and waste. But China’s global ambitions and the government’s questionable actions hardly presage China’s collapse...
What do you think is the root cause of the anti-American sentiment sweeping the nations of the world...
...think there's anti-American sentiment sweeping the world. The U.S. is most responsible for peace and security in the world. We didn't ask for that [role]. But I would say to people who hold that view, Be careful what you ask for. Because if you say, "America, go home," at some point, we may just...
...Unfortunately, though Michaelis does not wear the tread on the charm of the comic series, he fails to do the same for Schulz. By the end, Schulz has made the short transition from shy, self-deprecating child to a humble but lonely man. Almost as an echo of a sentiment expressed by Charlie Brown—“I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to”—Schulz inadvertently becomes more two-dimensional than his round-headed creation by the end of the biography. Michaelis traces the chronology...
...That sentiment will find resonance among those Evangelical Christians who worry that Grassley's pursuit of the six preachers, who all belong to a faction of Charismatic Christianity known loosely as "prosperity gospel," amounts to what one observer called a "saint hunt." It will not play as well with others who have grown increasingly frustrated at the opulent lifestyles of the televangelists. In any case, maintaining a friend's innocence allows Huckabee to continue to access a part of the media important to Republican hopefuls. Charisma's editor, J. Lee Grady, was slightly amused that anyone would think Copeland would...