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Clinton seemed to enjoy nothing more than opposing the Republicans' more extreme proposals. He blocked initiatives to weaken wetlands protection, sell off federal forests to ski resorts, provide exemptions to the Clean Air Act for oil refineries and repeal the law that regulates pesticides in foods. But often these issues were merely deferred, not settled. Most visible is the case of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), 19.6 million acres of pristine tundra in northeast Alaska populated by vast herds of caribou and other wildlife. Clinton vetoed a 1995 bid by Republicans to open the refuge...
...magazines and on aspirin bottles at your normal reading distance, and so you start moving the print farther and farther away. If you haven't already experienced this trombone effect, don't worry, you will. Starting around age 40, the lenses in most people's eyes start to weaken. You begin to lose the ability to focus on things close up and have to resort to bifocals or reading glasses to make out the fine print. (The moderately nearsighted can often make do until age 50 by taking off their corrective lenses...
...Israel had responded with air raids on Gaza after two Israelis were killed Monday in a bomb attack on a school bus, but that action had only served to weaken Israel's diplomatic position. Egypt recalled its ambassador in protest of the Israeli air raids, signaling a new chill in relations between the country and its longest-standing Arab peace partner. Even the United States criticized the Israeli action as "disproportionate and excessive." And that Wednesday car bombing proved that heavy Israeli retaliation was unlikely to stop terror attacks...
...Both are valid scientific questions and currently the subjects of additional research, but they are not reasons for delaying action to slow global warming. Moreover, the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the United States and 185 other nations ratified, is designed to allow countries to weaken or strengthen the treaty in response to new scientific developments...
...first foreign policy crisis confronted by the next U.S. president. It's been clear for some time now that the sanctions policy is on its last legs, since almost a decade of restrictions that have crippled the Iraqi economy have done nothing to weaken the dictator's grip on power. The problem for Washington, though, is that it has failed to come up with an alternative strategy despite the fact that most of its Gulf War European and Arab allies have signaled their intention to end sanctions as soon as possible. That's left the initiative with the Russians, French...