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...MacDonald notes, "If I had been paying attention, I might have noticed that it was an interesting time to be alive in America. There was an election in the works, and it was sizing up to be a real humdinger. It was the year 2000. Peacetime. Boom time. An era of big ideas." But in 2008, with a faltering economy and a war on two fronts, this tale of self-induced starvation just doesn't seem as funny. Can lentils and hard-boiled eggs save...
...face on a photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you are going too far. Obama is a rookie-in-waiting who has not even entered the game yet. So far, all he seems to have done is start assembling a team of political has-beens from the Clinton era. I expect next week's edition of Time to show Obama descending from the clouds preceded by angels blowing trumpets. Don Moiso, Ocean City, New Jersey...
Around the world, the U.N. is eyeing other ecological disasters for their conflict potential. There is the loss of half the Aral Sea to Soviet-era irrigation, and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers (which feed rivers from which 500 million people draw water); and there are Chinese plans to dam the upper Mekong, halving water flow to 65 million Southeast Asians. In a 2003 report, the U.N. Environment Program said water shortages already affected 400 million people and predicted that number would multiply tenfold by 2050. At that time, more than a sixth of the world's population...
...fear that Republicans would wrap such a move around their necks at election time. And so, though civil libertarians may holler, the Obama team is likely to put the emphasis on national security as it begins to explore options for undoing the policies of the Bush-Cheney era. Here's a look at what the new President may seek to change and what he may leave in place...
...Some scientists call the modern era the sixth mass extinction that is taking place, Davis said, and so the study “gives us a very strong shot in the arm about thinking in an evolutionary way about which species are going to decline to climate change...