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America's responsibility now, as we mark the first Earth Day of a new millennium, is to bring these lessons to bear against new, more profound environmental challenges. We must look well beyond our own cities and countryside, make environment a core foreign policy objective and provide the leadership needed to put all nations on a cleaner, more sustainable path to prosperity...
Slowly comes the surreal sight of a green plastic toothbrush emerging from the bird's gullet. With her neck arched, the mother cannot fully pass the straight brush. She tries several times to disgorge it, but can't. Nancy and I can hardly bear this. The albatross reswallows and, with the brush stuck inside, wanders away...
...free music is growing, and there are few channels for dissemination of this music as effective as Napster. Universities should not be forced to deny students access to a service with legal uses for fear that it will be used illegally. Furthermore, it is unclear whether universities should bear legal responsibility for the actions of students. The network policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences already prohibits the duplication of others' intellectual property; the mere act of providing a student with an Ethernet connection would hardly make the University complicit in violations of its own policy...
That's how bear markets go. Instead of every dip being a buying opportunity, every rally becomes a chance to unload. "For the first time in a while, people have got really scared," notes longtime bear Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He was expecting more selling this week, fueled by margin calls, margin-related liquidations and fidgety institutions. Mutual-fund investors, generally, have been holding on, Biggs says, though they haven't been aggressive buyers, and some fund companies got hit with redemptions. [What should you do? For advice on riding out volatile markets...
...this a bear market? It may be, and it may be all but over already. With information so quickly and extensively disseminated via the Internet, and with the low cost of trading, rapid market moves have become common. The time it takes to correct market excesses has condensed. So bear markets end as quickly as they start, and soon stock prices are on firm footing again. In fact, Wall Street hasn't witnessed a drawn-out bloodletting since...