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...really unavoidable; despite all the nonsense about objectivity, good reporters have to continually wrestle with editors, sources and their own consciences about what to put in the story and what to keep out. As the stories get bigger and bigger, the calls get tougher and tougher to make...
Some students try to pretend Harvard is just like every other college by calling the entryways "vertical hallways." This is deceptive logic, though, since climbing stairs to the fifth floor of Matthews is significantly tougher than gliding effortlessly down a normal dorm hall...
...alerting the planet that development is not necessarily good if it sacrifices future generations." Others took the line that the summit's battered compromise agreements represented first steps that could be built upon in the future -- just as the toothless 1985 Vienna Convention set the stage for later tougher agreements establishing timetables for the phaseout of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbon...
...weakened, and the White House is refusing to sign the pact to protect endangered plants and animals. But most other nations came ready for action. India, often a holdout in environmental negotiations, agreed to the climate-change treaty, and three countries -- Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands -- pushed for tougher curbs on the gases that may cause global warming...
...tougher game than it used to be, however. The three networks' share of the TV audience showed a slight gain this past season, but the long-term trend has been down, down, down. To compete for a smaller pool of viewers, the networks are learning to live by a new set of rules...