Word: argumentative
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...Castellanos, the author of the ad, was well known to everyone as a tough, mean message masseur. "RATS" was perfectly framed in the screen, while the other letters in the special effect bounced randomly across the screen to the beat of background music. On the other side of the argument the case was made that it was a pretty lame gambit, lacking such art that it must be a mistake...
...mobilized experts and extremists. It is in part a familiar religious struggle--Earth Firster vs. logger, environmentalist vs. entrepreneur. The argument is also about the dynamics of land and trees and weather and man, about forestry and wildlife habitat and flames and money and reverence and recreation. It is about what has gone wrong (if anything) to allow such a conflagration, about whether the fault lies with nature or with man, and about how to manage the nation's patrimony of forests in the longer term...
...argument over roadless lands is thus framed in vastly different perspectives of time. Opponents--off-road-vehicle enthusiasts, hunters, fishermen, loggers, miners and organized labor (which cites the loss of jobs)--do not speculate centuries in advance. They want use of the land now. In the American Southeast, debate focuses on more than 5 million acres of national forests--625,000 acres designated as roadless--that harbor some of the last vestiges of America's primeval woodlands, including some of the oldest forests in the world...
...easy--even popular in some circles--to attack Annan's compassion. The argument is that his warm heart, while praiseworthy on an individual level, would be a disastrous global paradigm. As Shawcross argues in Deliver Us from Evil, his study of U.N. peacekeeping, pure implementation of the Kofi Doctrine would lead to a world with never-ending humanitarian wars. It is an awful paradox that compassion should come at so steep a price. This is why Annan doesn't insist on universal application of his doctrine. What he believes is that the world needs to create a climate in which...
...comes word of more evidence for the anticleanliness argument. In a study involving more than 1,000 children, published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at the University of Arizona compared youngsters who had attended day care before the age of six months with those who had enrolled at a later date. As you might expect, the younger kids, who were exposed to other children earlier and more often, experienced more infections and wheezing. But after they turned six years old, their risk of asthma was less than half that of the children who had enrolled...