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...side effects. It could undermine the EPA's long fight to bring many of the nation's oldest, dirtiest power plants into compliance with current law. And since the caps would be nationwide--letting a polluter in one state trade credits with a clean plant in another--localities that suffer from the dirtiest air could be left with no recourse. Environmentalists say the caps in Bush's plan are so weak that it would be better to stick with existing law. "Clear Skies is not what the EPA sent to the White House," an agency insider says. "It's what...
...time for mothers to suffer, helplessly, desperately. When Palestinian and Israeli societies are being ripped apart by the testosterone and machismo of wartime, mothers are struggling to keep alive their nurturing role amid the loss, grief and fear. "In the stricken faces of mothers--Palestinian mothers and Israeli mothers--the entire world is witnessing the agonizing cost of this conflict," President Bush said last week. It is a time when children can't be sent to school without the worry that some bomber or soldier will take their lives. It is a time for a woman to relax only when...
While most American students are forced to suffer through the highly moralistic autobiography of a self-important Ben Franklin, a work which ends before the Revolutionary War even begins, Brands breathes new life into the familiar story of the so-called “first American.” His style is unconventional and, at times, audacious. He begins by placing the reader at a cockfight on royal grounds that Franklin attended just before answering for colonial misbehavior in front of the British Parliament...
...that are useless or actively harmful. Yet the very nature of human testing involves risk; nobody can tell in advance whether a new medicine carries unforeseen dangers. And so clinicians are forced to walk an ethical and scientific tightrope. Make the rules protecting patients too lax, and subjects will suffer and even die needlessly. Make them too strict, and lifesaving medications won't make it out of the lab quickly enough to help the people who need them most...
Even as you successfully tuck the gremlin away for now, reassuring yourself that the blip is a one-time misstep, inconsequential in the scheme of things, lingering doubts remain, a crack in your self-confidence. But then you suffer the more common minor annoyances of everyday life—you make a comment that is quickly dismissed in section as irrelevant, a close friend doesn’t say ‘hi’ on the street, or you feel passed over in an extracurricular—and the self-esteem gremlin once again rears its ugly head. Except...