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...most of his prepared testimony, Gore ran through an abbreviated version of his famous Inconvenient Truth PowerPoint presentation on the threat of climate change - updated with new, increasingly scary data. He pointed out that the increase in global carbon emissions over the past few years is well above previous estimates from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meaning that we are beginning to put ourselves on track for worst-case scenarios. He noted a sobering new paper published Jan. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which indicated that even if we managed to stabilize...
...course, some supporters of Israel may see the re-establishment of relations as a threat to the Israeli state. However, the truth is a bit more complicated. The re-establishment of formal relations will open diplomatic channels by which the US can help Iran to reconcile its differences with Israel and other Middle Eastern states. The present situation leaves the United States in a bind, unable to effectively mediate between two hostile parties and forced to resort to bullying and bellicose language. Opening relations with Iran will at least put negotiation on the table...
According to the U.S. Attorney General's office in Knoxville, the penalty for sending hoax-like threats is 5 years in prison accompanied by a fine. If the threat caused injury, this could be extended to 20 years. And if death resulted, the it could result in a life sentence...
...opinion. But a world without tort claims and padded billing would still be many people's idea of heaven. Howard, an attorney and author of the best-selling book The Death of Common Sense, chronicles a society in which rules have run amok and litigation looms as a constant threat. Among his egregious examples: a Florida teacher wary of restraining a hysterical child gets the cops to slap handcuffs on the kid instead; a New York City high school prohibits nurses from calling ambulances without the principal's permission; a town slide in Oklahoma is dismantled for liability concerns...
...threat of litigation impedes our ability to make common-sense decisions: "Straining daily choices through a legal sieve basically kills the human instinct needed to get things done. Law applied to ordinary decisions leads to bad choices, which leads to more law, which leads to worse choices. Pretty soon law is everywhere, separating people from their instincts of right and wrong...