Word: shortsightedness
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The head of a nation is the capital; the head of a human body is its capital. When I read about the regeneration, development, changes and specialties of the cities in your stories, I discovered that the people who successfully transformed the unheralded places you described used their heads to...
Upon the death of a leader, a nation is tempted to idealize his accomplishments. I suggest we take a more sober view and remember that although Americans-and indeed the rest of the world-owe Reagan a debt of gratitude for his leadership in the closing days of the cold...
Distances have shrunk since then, of course, and Jefferson's notion that the country's population would never strain its seemingly limitless resources comes off as ridiculously shortsighted now. What's more, the Virginian couldn't have foreseen the way in which America's thirst for oil would place it...
We also need to rethink our chummy support for Pakistan’s military regime. Referring to the beneficiary (and initiator) of a military coup as “a courageous leader and a friend of the United States,” as Bush has described President Musharaff, and inviting...
Unfortunately, young women will suffer the most as a result. A recent study published in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology found that providing sexually active teenage girls with emergency contraception pills did not make them more likely to have unprotected sex—but it did cause them...