Word: progressivity
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History teaches the opposite. Progress against pollution has come because of regulation, not the beneficence of industry. At the time of Bush's meeting with Marquez, some TNRCC officials had been pushing for a law that would have required the plants to clean up. Bush's insistence on a voluntary approach--an attitude shared by Marquez, a former executive at Monsanto--quashed that idea. In early 1997, Bush's team held a series of private meetings with oil-, gas- and chemical-industry leaders and invited them to draft a plan for a voluntary emission-reduction program. The secret meetings came...
...since the first balloting after Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution have Iranians seen such a freewheeling election--a credit to the progress Khatami has managed to achieve. More than 6,000 candidates are vying for places in the 290-seat Majlis. In the 30-seat Tehran region, Reza Khatami is competing against an astonishing 869 rivals. Many Iranians had expected the Council of Guardians, which screens candidates and is controlled by hard-line mullahs, to manipulate the outcome ahead of time by keeping reform-minded candidates off the ballot. But the secretive council surprised everyone and waved most reform hopefuls...
...Irish Republic's government and traditional republican supporters in the U.S. are twisting arms too, and it may be working. The same day Mandelson announced the suspension, the body in charge of decommissioning reported "valuable progress" from the I.R.A.'s representative, who declared that the group will now "consider how to put arms and explosives beyond use." That was too elliptical to keep Mandelson from pulling the plug, but it offers hope for a relatively short hiatus...
...Daniel Libeskind's tumbling addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which looks like a cross between a building and an avalanche. Another is the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati by the Iranian-born, diagonally inclined British architect Zaha Hadid. Several of the most spectacular works in progress are by Gehry, like his annex to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, a whiplashing addition to a city where, when it comes to new architecture, you can usually hear a pin drop...
Laws are bad weapons in the fight to protect privacy. Once we invoke the law, the bad deed has ordinarily been done, and society has lost. Attempting to restrain technological progress is another bad strategy--it's a fool's game and won't work. The best method for protecting privacy in 2025 is the same method we have always used: teaching our children to tell right from wrong, making it plain that we count on them to do what is right...