Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...post-cold war world, Americans worry more about dotcom stocks falling on the NASDAQ than they do about missiles falling from the sky. For those who do fear nuclear holocaust, however, there is www.protectamericansnow.com There you can get your very own "Customized Missile Threat Profile." Just type in your ZIP code, and the program will tell you which countries purportedly have the ability to hit your community with intercontinental ballistic missiles--and which countries may soon have the power to make your life that kind of nightmare. The site was masterminded by Frank Gaffney, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary...
...changed simply because he had been reshod. They turned left and headed for Lampe Drugs, a family operation since 1940. Across the street at Faeth's, the third, fourth and fifth generations of the Faeth family catered to customers in a cigar shop where you can sip a cold Pabst for a buck, buy a box of shotgun shells, find out where the catfish are jumping, play a game of billiards or drop the kids off for a soda and know they're safer than if you'd tied them to a tree. Just up Avenue G., Patty Tucker...
...balmy equatorial zones, where temperatures at high noon in midsummer may approach a shirtsleeves 68[degrees]F. Almost all the new channels, however, were spotted at the planet's relative extremes--north of 30[degrees] north latitude and south of 30[degrees] south--and all were carved on the cold, shaded sides of slopes...
...article by Charles Krauthammer on Bush's nuclear doctrine [ESSAY, June 12] brings to mind a history lesson gone bad. Just because we aren't in a cold war anymore, we don't have the right to abandon our arms agreements. The idea that we are the biggest and baddest and thus we can do what we want is idiocy. We need to treat others the way we want to be treated and to set the example of taking a responsible leadership role in the world community. E. TERRY LEWIS Binghamton...
...hype in Warsaw notwithstanding, democracy has never been the linchpin of U.S. foreign policy. During the Cold War, the very term "democratic" was simply a synonym for anticommunist - Suharto, Mobutu, Generals Diem and Pinochet, the medieval Islamists who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and many other dodgy candidates were all in the "democratic" camp, remember. Even since communism's decisive defeat has allowed Washington to abandon such questionable company, it's simply not true to proclaim democracy as the basis for U.S. foreign policy...