Word: processing
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George W. Bush is in the process of finding out. As a youthful candidate who wanted to be taken seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations...
...already taken place is relatively simple; the trick is unraveling the causes and projecting what will happen over the next century. To do that, IPCC scientists fed a wide range of scenarios involving varying estimates of population and economic growth, changes in technology and other factors into computers. That process gave them about 35 estimates, ranging from 6 billion to 35 billion tons, of how much excess carbon dioxide will enter the atmosphere...
...option Sharon is weighing is whether to allow Jews back onto the Temple Mount for the first time since the intifadah. Some security advisers are saying this will help defuse settler anger; others are saying it will further inflame the Palestinians. And even many Israelis who supported the peace process and opposed Sharon support the strikes on Arafat's Force 17, feeling that they have been betrayed by Arafat...
...latest Palestinian attacks. The substance of that complaint, really, is that Arafat's Palestinian Authority is giving free rein to Islamist terror groups operating in areas under its control. That's hardly surprising. The incentive for Arafat to restrain Hamas and Islamic Jihad had been the peace process itself, and the possibility it created that dialogue could result in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza being replaced with a Palestinian state. That process collapsed last year at Camp David, and Sharon has refused to countenance new negotiations within the Oslo framework. Under those circumstances, it's hard...
...abhor a vacuum. McCain has been the first to admit that soft money was already supposed to be illegal - making it illegal again won't change the fact that it won't be long before lawyers and money, like nature, will find a way back in to the political process...