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The lengthy delays were closely tied to objections and pressure from a few city officials and the upper ranks of the police force, who consider the CRB meddlesome and unnecessary. Their delay tactics and objections, however, are short-sighted and inappropriate.
AS WE WATCH THE TEFLON PEEL from Ronald Reagan's presidency, there is no need to bicker about the relative venality of the various crimes his Administration committed. The President has broken faith with the American people. He swore to uphold and to defend the Constitution but instead led his...
Saying that a short-sighted world is passing up simple solutions to its most severe problems, Turner called on a new generation of Americans to dedicate itself to preserving the world from potential disaster.
Perhaps most troubling to the scientists is the fact that plants and animals are disappearing faster than they can be found and described. Naturalists have cataloged 1.6 million species, a small fraction of the estimated 4 million to 30 million that remain undiscovered. While most of these unknown species are...
And what of Rita Ratchen these days? "I see it as a natural phenomenon," she said over coffee the other morning in the LK Restaurant down the road from the soybean tank. As she spoke, a waitress came over with a tally sheet from the home office, showing that the...