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...bear, including several western Senators, say that the species does in fact appear to be O.K. Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, calls sea ice studies such as the one run by USGS a "classic case of reality versus unproven computer models." In fact, he says, the number of polar bears has increased over the past half-century as a result of initiatives like the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, which sharply curtailed bear hunting; he thinks declaring the animal endangered would be a purely political move...
...election could not have offered voters a more dramatic choice. Britain was forced to decide between radical right and zealous left, with only the unproven Alliance trying to hold the center. The Labor Party's campaign manifesto called for pulling Britain out of the European Community, unilaterally banishing nucle ar weapons from British soil, launching a $17 billion job-creation program and nationalizing a clutch of key industries. The Conservative manifesto, on the other hand, pledged to do the opposite on just about every issue. Aside from staying in the European Community and keeping the missiles, the Tories vowed that...
...Sophie in 't Veld, a Dutch liberal member of the European Parliament, says the E.U. has been blindly replicating unproven U.S. laws without thinking them through. "Every time the U.S. comes up with a new rule, the E.U. whines about it for a while, but then adopts same measure. But do they actually make the world a safer place?" she says. "Nobody in their right mind opposes real security measures, but I fear we are creating the illusion of security. Let's not pretend that taking fingerprints will eradicate crime, violence and terrorism...
...airline industry frowns on mandating the technology, claiming the strategy is unproven and expensive. Even American Airlines, a participant in the tests, is "philosophically opposed...
...still lacks some of the core pieces of a national front-runner campaign. Many of his policy proposals, both foreign and domestic, have not yet been fleshed out. His research department is thinly staffed, and his press shop is constantly overwhelmed. His fundraising operation remains a bit of an unproven mystery. Chip Saltsman, the campaign manager, said the conversation about new hires would begin on the overnight plane ride. "This is a campaign that has been taking fire nationally for a while now," he said. "We knew we were going to have to get bigger...