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...went down in order in the third, fourth and fifth, and although sophomore Emily Henderson drew a leadoff walk in the sixth, she couldn’t advance past second base.“I think we’re going to try to switch up the lineup and spread out our hitters who have been hitting the ball well,” Vertovez said. “We were all having great at-bats—it just wasn’t falling in. We just need to keep swinging.”The team didn?...
...deaths from a catastrophic meltdown. The federal government hasn't met its responsibility to store nuclear waste, despite pouring billions of dollars into a hole in Nevada. Nuclear energy got caught up in the nuclear freeze, even though that was supposed to be about nuclear weapons, and the spread of terrorism and rogue states has lent some credence to fears of proliferation. After Chernobyl, which was much worse than TMI, nuclear power seemed like way more trouble than it was worth...
...Everyone," of course, is an aggregate. One difficulty with trade, and the reason that it becomes controversial at times of economic hardship, is that while its benefits are widely spread and difficult to measure, its costs are concentrated and often easy to see. The gains manifest themselves, for example, in low prices at the supermarket. But consumers are many, and they are not politically organized. By contrast, those who can be identified as losing out because of trade - like automobile workers who have lost their jobs to imports - are relatively few and are easy to marshal into political communities with...
...France's indivisible ideology is noble in theory - but often mocked by reality. There are plenty of periods in French history where racial and religious discrimination were rife - from the colonial era to cooperation with Nazi occupiers. The 2005 rioting that spread across France's suburban housing projects - and the international media attention that it drew - provided another reminder that something was seriously wrong in the land of fraternité et egalité. That unrest seems to have finally provoked a period of soul searching in France...
...shiny new Nanos could greatly add to traffic congestion and air pollution in major cities. Tata doesn't see it that way, calling complaints about the potential environmental impact of widespread Nano adoption "somewhat ironic." "It's almost like a car is O.K. for some people, but don't spread it to the larger base of the population," he says. "Why are we denying the masses comforts that we enjoy today?" There are millions of other families still in India, still piled onto motorcycles, who have asked themselves that question. "It's difficult to carry my entire family...