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A good place to start would be to give albatrosses a future with more food and less plastic trash to swallow. A U.N. marine-pollution treaty makes dumping plastics illegal, but policing at sea is impractical. Nonetheless, ships could be required to carry up-to-date equipment for handling garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry Of The Ancient Mariner | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the African trade bill could benefit from the impractical idealism of the World Bank proposal. The bill has had so many "protections" for American companies added by the U.S. textile lobby that many of the bill's original benefits now cannot be realized. The most harmful new stipulation is...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: An Economic Plan for Africa | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

Rather than pull out of the race like most defeated politicians would, though, McCain has only suspended his campaign until Bush presides at the GOP father-son picnic of a convention. The only reasons he must have for doing so are personal, not issue-based. After all, Bush is a...

Author: By Matthew N. Stoller, | Title: Bitter to the End | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

Although China has threatened military action if reunification can't be achieved peacefully on its terms, it currently lacks the military capability to mount a successful invasion of Taiwan - and going to war could seriously jeopardize its already precarious economy. "Chen may be trying to call Beijing?s bluff at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan and China Now on a Collision Course | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

Independent adult students have a right to make their own housing decisions. But if parents are paying for college and housing, they deserve to have some say over their investment, over whom their child can live with. As a compromise, the school could allow the majority payer of each student...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, | Title: Thinking Seriously About Coed Housing | 3/17/2000 | See Source »

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