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...made one small but significant rhetorical concession to political reality: a vague and unconvincing warning about "isolationism" and "protectionism," by which he means the growing public impatience with foreign military adventures, foreign economic competition and illegal foreign immigrants. Bush sees this, rightly, as a national turn toward pessimism. "We shouldn't fear the future," he said at a Republican fund raiser last week, "because we intend to shape the future...
...growing up in a show-business family prepare you for life as an actress? I got to see the profession for what it is. You can be blown up and blown down in a second. Sometimes I think you shouldn't have that perspective, though. Sometimes I think you should just go, "Oh, it's amazing, and it's going to last forever...
...perhaps they shouldn't have. At a time when the Bush Administration is pushing nuclear power as a partial solution to the nation's current energy woes, the fact that the accidents happened as far back as 1996 but were only recently disclosed highlighted what critics view as glaring weaknesses in the federal government's oversight of nuclear energy. So it was that earlier this week, just hours after the emergency at the LaSalle County nuclear plant and loud complaints from Republican Congressman Jerry Weller of Illinois, the NRC decided to launch a wide probe of all nuclear power operations...
...shouldn't matter whether the company is from Des Moines or Dubai, do you have confidence that they are essentially doing things that safeguard our security interest?" says Flynn. And the main weakness he sees in security arrangements at ports throughout the U.S. is that they're largely the responsibility of private companies who are expected to police themselves...
...usual argument put forth by global-warming skeptics for why we shouldn't rush to do anything yet is that the science behind climate change is uncertain--and in fact it is. While there's little doubt that humans are helping heat up the planet, the questions of how much, how quickly and leading to what consequences are fiendishly difficult to pin down. That's because the actual climate is still far more complicated than any existing computer model can accurately reflect, making predictions iffy at best. Some natural processes nobody has yet thought of could end up blunting...