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...lacked such clarity of mind and viewed this feat as a nearly successful attempt to stop my otherwise healthy teenage heart. When we finally disembarked, I was more than willing to parachute down the mountain, imagining it would be a much more civilized ride. But Sugar was quick to squelch that pleasant thought when he informed us that conditions at the top were not good, that there was not enough wind and what little wind there was was blowing in the wrong direction. I pretended I didn't notice the bewildered stares of my friends when I asked Sugar...
Auto and oil companies are gearing up for a battle to squelch California's electric-vehicles mandate just as New York and Massachusetts prepare to enact equally stringent zero-emission rules. But a dirty little secret may emerge this week when scores of EV drivers converge on a public hearing at the California Air Resources Board--namely, that GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota and other companies have worked to undermine the mandate to build tens of thousands of battery-run vehicles...
...ground for these infectiously growing programs. Founder Shawn Fanning, 19, wrote the original code for Napster while he was a freshman computer-science major at Boston's Northeastern University. An admittedly lousy guitar player, Fanning began writing the code so he could distribute his own six-string doodlings and squelch his roomie's constant whining about unreliable MP3 search engines. Back in the MP3 stone age--you know, eight months ago--too many links to too many tunes were outdated or invalid, frustrating many a prospective pirate...
...about the planned European Union military force, which Washington hopes will eventually take over a mission that may well require a permanent commitment. "It's perfectly fair for Robertson to say that the region is more stable now that there are thousands upon thousands of NATO troops there to squelch most of the problems," says Calabresi. "Milosevic's room for maneuver has been drastically reduced, and the U.S. and NATO have managed with minimal casualties to defuse the potential for tragedy in Kosovo - but by doing so, of course, they've inherited a bunch of other problems." And if NATO...
Even with the necessary support, though--say, a debating society or political union--incivility might still squelch debate. Today, most questions on which reasonable people can disagree are respectfully discussed, although casual accusations of bigotry limit debate on issues related to homosexuality or race. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, such name-calling (occasionally backed with force) silenced genuine debate on a much wider range of issues...