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...next to the big guns of the 5,200-ton Japanese destroyer Kurama, watching sea-to-sea missiles roar off the decks of a pair of passing cruisers. The nautical fireworks were part of an SDF exercise last October involving nearly 50 warships and 8,000 sailors in Sagami Bay, south of Tokyo. The maneuvers, held just a few weeks after North Korea tested a nuclear bomb, provided a forceful reminder that, despite the unassuming name, Japan possesses an advanced military-and knows...
...There shouldn't be any exit strategy for the Bush Administration. The U.S. has to stay the course and clean up the mess it has created; otherwise it could leave behind a pan-Arab war. The demons that George W. Bush unleashed in Iraq had been held at bay for decades. Has he accomplished his mission of finding wmd or brought freedom, democracy, peace and progress to the Iraqis? The situation in Iraq is worse than those in Bosnia, Somalia and Congo combined. As for the Iraqis, it has now been acknowledged that although life wasn't the best, they...
There is a limit to the pugnacity of any Administration. Richard Nixon reached it in Cambodia; John F. Kennedy reached it at the Bay of Pigs. Until now, President George W. Bush may never have encountered an eye he wasn't willing to at least consider poking. But even for him, the polar bear may have finally proven to be a fight...
...bears are in very deep trouble, and have been for a while. There are only between 20,000 and 25,000 of them left in the world, divided among 19 populations in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia and elsewhere. Perhaps the best studied of the groups is the Western Hudson Bay population, which scientists have been monitoring since the 1960s. For decades, membership of the group remained relatively stable, at about 1,200 adults and cubs. Between 1987 and 1994, however - precisely the years in which the rise in global temperatures have become the most evident - the number plummeted...
...After graduation he turned down pro offers from the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions and went off to Yale to coach football and boxing. After taking several courses on a trial basis, he was admitted to Yale Law School, from which he graduated in the top quarter of his class in 1941. He returned to Grand Rapids to found a law practice with his friend Philip Buchen, but shortly after Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Navy and served for four years...