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Look at the black and yellow symbol on the right. Is it a fan? A propeller? No. It's a trefoil, the international sign used to warn people away from potentially deadly sources of radiation. If you didn't recognize the degree of danger that is supposed to be conveyed by the three-bladed symbol, which represents radiation emitting from an atom, you're not alone. Over the last two decades, at least 20 people have died and more than 400 have been injured after accidentally exposing themselves to radioactive sources, such as radiography units dumped in scrap heaps. Experts...
...when I saw him speak at the recent international Conference on Security Policy in Munich, the Russian President gave a striking impersonation of Michael Corleone in The Godfather--the embodiment of implicit menace. An American delegation that included Defense Secretary Robert Gates and presidential contender John McCain heard Putin warn that a "unipolar world"--meaning one dominated by the U.S.--would prove "pernicious not only for all those within this system but also for the sovereign itself." America's "hyper use of force," Putin said, was "plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts...
Stifling regulations, absurd lawsuits and ambitious prosecutors are pushing companies to raise money overseas, the scolds in pinstripes warn, and unless the rules loosen up, within a decade New York City could slip behind London, Hong Kong or, yes, Dubai as a center of global finance. President George W. Bush chimed in during a Jan. 31 speech, saying that lawsuits and overregulation might drag the markets down...
...drew flak from environmental activists, including Britain’s Green Party and the country’s environment secretary, for contributing to global warming by flying to New York, according to British news reports. Referencing the criticism, Charles opened his speech by joking, “I must warn you that I am in fact a video recording. I have only made a ‘virtual’ flight across the Atlantic and am ‘virtually’ half-dead and only ‘virtually’ royal.” The director...
...President Bush has said "failure is not an option in Iraq," but the Brookings researchers warn that he may already have failed there and not know it. They scoured the records of more than a dozen nations wracked by all-out civil war during the past 30 years - countries such as Lebanon, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Somalia - and found that while historians could agree with hindsight on when those conflicts reached the point of no return, that point was never apparent to the leaders at the time. "This should sober us to the possibility that it may already be too late...