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...hurricanes per year, which raises the central question of this hurricane season: Why is the Atlantic producing so many big storms these days? The reason, believes Goldenberg, lies in a broad 1°F-to-1.5°F rise in sea-surface temperatures that occurred in the mid-1990s. That slight but significant increase is thought to be due to a cyclical shift in ocean-circulation patterns. When the Atlantic last warmed, between 1926 and 1970, a parade of monster storms menaced the Caribbean and the coastal U.S. Then, between 1970 and 1994, sea-surface temperatures dropped, and, save for Andrew...
...After seven Budget surpluses, during a time of buoyant revenues, Costello could have retired more debt and spent more on public investment that will sustain future growth - in infrastructure and human capital. Indeed, these surpluses have been slight exercises in prudence in an era of prosperity. Asset sales, such as the partial float of Telstra, have helped create the illusion of fiscal frugality. Other than two hard years of spending cuts to rein in Labor's excesses, Canberra has barely been squeezed. Compared with the hard, lean predators who dominated the Expenditure Review Committee in the Hawke-Keating years...
Lobbyists for the National Rifle Association, who insist that the public is not in fact in favor of the ban, have argued that the law has huge loopholes. Indeed, some gun manufacturers have been producing weapons with slight cosmetic changes to sidestep the intent of the law. Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas, has derided the ban as an ineffective “feel-good piece of legislation.” To be sure, whatever ambiguity existing in the current legislation is problematic. But the existence of loopholes is not an argument for throwing out the ban altogether...
...wake of the four-day salute to John Kerry's Vietnam combat record that doubled as the Democratic Convention, political analysts were declaring that given the way undecided voters were leaning, the race was Kerry's to lose. Now he appears to be losing it--or at least that slight edge he had gained. First came the Senator's latest clear-as-mud explanation of his position on the Iraq war; then, more harmfully, came the sabotage by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Just as President Bush and the Republicans take their turn in the spotlight at their gathering...
...party drawing all the media attention this week, Kerry's predicament will probably get worse before it can improve, which is why his recent slide, however modest, is so troubling to Democrats. With just two months to go before Election Day in this remarkably tight race, even a slight slip in the polls could prove fatal. --By James Carney/Washington