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...Some scientists blame climate change; others finger a mega-outbreak of disease. Still others subscribe to what Australian paleontologist Tim Flannery refers to as the "black-hole theory of extinction." In this case, as Flannery wryly explains in his just published ecological history of North America, The Eternal Frontier (Atlantic Monthly Press; $27.50), the black hole lay between the nose and chin of our Stone Age ancestors...
...month. Thus affected, I rang Telkom Kenya, the state-owned monopoly, from my one working line every few days to get updates on the progress of their repair work on my main line. After a couple of weeks, the manager in charge of my suburb took to blaming the weather for the slow progress. You can't just blame the weather, I said. "You're right," he said. "It's also incompetence. Massive incompetence." Now that's honesty...
...priority there is no inclination to do anything rash that would hurt the economy. European whining, protest in the streets, and complaints from bureaucrats have only so much effect on the powerful voices in the White House. The real view is that Europeans are being unrealistic and trying to blame the United States for backing out of the Kyoto agreement when they had their own problems with it. Solving global climate change, says the White House, cannot be done in a day. Issues must be weighed and studied. True, but that means until the White House offers real policy prescriptions...
...nixing Tenet's proposals, Yasser Arafat announced late Tuesday that, like Israel, he would accept the deal - but with plenty of reservations and outright rejection of some clauses. And that was quick thinking by the Palestinian leader, after his earlier rejection had prompted Tenet to blame Arafat for the failure of his peace mission, and plan his departure...
...what really worries Hispanic leaders is that many newcomers don't seem to want to participate. For whatever reason--longer waits, higher application fees, cultural factors that work against assimilation--a smaller and smaller portion of new immigrants are even trying to become citizens. Some Latino politicians blame bilingualism, the cause for which they fought in the 1970s and 1980s, for discouraging assimilation. "A Latino can exist in their own community and never have to learn English to survive," says Texas Congressman Charles Gonzalez. "My fear is that we have not only isolated ourselves, but we have handicapped ourselves...