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...talk about some of the biggest energy users. You cite some pretty staggering numbers about the amount of oil that it takes today to power a war. The best one is that an F-16 burns more fuel in an hour than the average American family uses in an entire year. And each gallon of fuel costs many more times the cost of fuel at your local gas station, given the cost of transporting [it]. It may end up costing $100 or more per gallon. When you think about the fact that every day in Iraq something like 1.5 million...
...Whitopias can form even in the middle of diverse cities. How is that possible? People don't realize that diversity isn't the same as integration. Blacks and whites in New York, where I live, are as segregated today as in 1910 [based on a sociologists' segregation index that measures how much contact people of differing races have with one another...
...country has moved on gay issues: Ting has such a strong sense of entitlement that a routine historical occurrence in democracies - the snatching back of rights that have been reluctantly given to despised minorities - came as a surprise to him. It is that sense of entitlement that led to today's march, which Ting and so many of his cohort put together...
...opposing Clinton's infamous "Don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military, the same policy that gays are now impatiently waiting on Obama to overturn. "A lot of us were 9 or 10 years old in 1993," Ting had said to me. I wondered if today's 9- and 10-year-old gays and lesbians would remember this march. Ting and his friends have a lot of work ahead of them to make sure they...
...leaking it to insiders before official announcements and to improve access for foreign journalists. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch asked Beijing to "open its digital door" and improve foreign media and entertainment companies' access to mainland markets. "The embrace of the digital is as vital to China today as its decision 30 years ago to take its place in the global economy," Murdoch said in a speech at the summit. (See pictures of Shanghai today...