Word: stakes
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...Carmona’s fate seems tame compared to some of Galileo’s colleagues who were burnt at the stake for believing in heliocentrism, but we don’t live in a late-medieval theocracy. America is the daughter of the Enlightenment, the most technologically advanced country in the world, and a superpower that owes its modern strength to science more than anything else. In order to protect the security and strength of the United States and ensure that we leave our children a planet we would want to live in, it is vital that the next...
...choice for President isn't like that: your life isn't at stake, at least not directly. But people who have a disposition toward indecision have a harder time reading how much risk is really involved in any particular choice, according to Hayes. They badly want to make the right choice; they strongly fear the emotional consequences of the wrong one. Hayes says these people are "anxious and worried," but, he adds, "to some degree, that comes from their caring and wanting to get it right ... Looked at in this way, perhaps it is O.K. to be in a situation...
...afford to slow down, sit back or let up for one day, one minute, or one second in these last few days," Obama says, as he did to a crowd of 25,000 in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday. "Not now. Not when so much is at stake...
...plight of the refugees is addressed, a far more daunting challenge will face all the diplomats who are now speaking earnestly of a solution at last in eastern Congo, whose people have suffered through two wars and numerous clashes since the mid-1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given...
...older than dirt, I’ve got more scars than Frankenstein, but I’ve learned a few things along the way.” There is no excuse for jumping on the Obama bandwagon while ignoring fundamental truisms. American wellbeing and security are at stake, and humanity is justifiably nervous. In these final moments, we have a chance to cling to an illusion of change or grasp a tried-and-true conductor of transformation...