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...writes a best seller warning that if environmentalism does not become "our new organizing principle," then "the very survival of our civilization will be in doubt." And "the potential for ! true catastrophe lies in the future, but the downslope that pulls us toward it is becoming recognizably steeper with each passing year." Familiar, isn't it? The yawning chasm -- accompanied, as for every apocalypse, by the death struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness: "We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization...
...study this behavior in detail. In one experiment, they dropped 35,000 grains of sand onto the pile one by one. As the sides grew too steep -- in some cases, by only a single grain of sand -- avalanches would make the pile collapse. Then it would start growing steeper again, until it was time for the next avalanche...
...anything, as Scott MacKay, an Ottawa computer consultant, put it, "people decided the politicians were hiding behind constitutional reform to avoid more pressing issues." Like the economy. The downturn in Canada has been much steeper than in the U.S., the country's chief trading partner: the unemployment rate stands at 11.8%, vs. 7.2% south of the border. More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs -- 20% of the total -- have been lost in the past three years, many of them permanently. Federal and provincial governments are awash...
...Americans would vote against antiabortion politicians "regardless of the candidate's position on other issues." But less than a quarter of the - electorate would vote against a proabortion-rights candidate solely because of that stance. Some of Bush's advisers dismiss these figures as misleading. His pollster, Fred Steeper, argues that nearly all voters who will cast their ballots only on the abortion issue made up their minds long ago. In this group, the liberals' edge amounts "only to a percentage point or two," Steeper says. But in a three-way race, every point is critical. Furthermore, Perot's presence...
...believe the force of our message and our sheer survival has caused people all over this country to see a new path," Tsongas said, reading a speech he prepared yesterday morning. "It is a steeper and harder path. But it is more compelling and more noble. It is the path of America's future...