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...Stormont Assembly and rule directly from London, one more unhappy time. The immediate cause was a police crackdown on a ring of alleged spies run by Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Police and government officials say republicans had vacuumed up more than a thousand sensitive documents, from conversations between Tony Blair and George W. Bush to personal details about security personnel. First Minister David Trimble, who negotiated the Belfast agreement for the unionists, was planning to take his party out of the government - thus causing its collapse - if Blair didn...
Pinocchio's Family Tree Since Carlo Collodi first brought his puppet to life in The Adventures of Pinocchio, in 1883, there has been no shortage of fresh interpretations. Disney's animated classic is the most renowned, but the piny protagonist has launched a thousand remakes. A brief history...
Pinocchio's Family Tree Since Carlo Collodi first brought his puppet to life in The Adventures of Pinocchio, in 1883, there has been no shortage of fresh interpretations. Disney's animated classic is the most renowned, but the piny protagonist has launched a thousand remakes. A brief history...
...remains: is it really bad if species such as the pig-tailed bandicoot go extinct? Wilson attempts to explain the value of biodiversity, using a combination of utilitarian and purely moral arguments for saving species. Humanity, he argues, is driving straight for a cliff, and driving fast. Two hundred thousand humans are born each day, and conservative projections have the world population topping off around 10 billion late this century. With so many humans competing for rapidly-shrinking resources, both food and water are likely to become exceedingly scarce. And when animals have to compete with humans for food...
...hundred thousand people attend the Harvard-Yale football game. How many police officers would it take to eliminate all communal sources of alcohol there?” she asked...