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...while, nature in its monumental autonomy throws us back upon ourselves--not merely our inventive but our moral selves. Humans are the only species able to go everywhere in the world, which also means that we have the capacity to do good or ill everywhere. The hardest case to make for acting on an environmental conscience is that it is the right thing to do. Yet, in the end, it may be the only case worth making. If we do not respect nature, we do not respect ourselves. We tend to forget that except at those moments when the story...
...water is priced at one-seventh of what it costs to pump, encouraging waste. In the mid-1980s, Indonesia spent $150 million annually to subsidize pesticide use. With access to cheap chemicals, Indonesian farmers poured pesticides onto their rice fields, killing pests, to be sure, but also causing human illness and wiping out birds and other creatures that ate the pests. When Indonesia ended the subsidies in 1986, pesticide use dropped dramatically with no ill effects on rice production...
...This was a basic case of security mechanisms that were not being followed or a department that was systematically ill-equipped to provide proper security," says TIME State Department Correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "But it also shows the larger new security problem presented by computers in general, which is their remote accessibility." On Monday, two months after the computer's disappearance, and roughly a week after news of the disappearance became public, Albright announced that she was removing security responsibility from the department's Intelligence and Research Bureau and handing it to another section, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. "There...
Every day, according to the Work & Family Connection, a news-and-information clearinghouse in Minnetonka, Minn., some 500,000 American children are sick enough to stay home from school or day care. While some of those kids are seriously ill, a fairly large percentage simply need to be isolated to prevent the spread of minor illnesses such as pinkeye and chicken pox. Or they need one more fever-free day after a bout of flu or strep throat before returning to school or day care. "In a perfect world, you wouldn't give it a thought. You'd stay home...
...accommodate just a few thousand of those sick kids per day. So what happens to the rest? Many of those who can't stay home or go to work with a parent wind up with a helpful friend or relative. And while it's tough to sneak even mildly ill babies and toddlers into day care, every parent knows a little cough suppressant and Tylenol can work wonders for school-age children. Worst of all, thousands of older sick kids stay home alone...