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...there is a middle way, one now being tested in Suffolk County on the eastern end of Long Island. Famous for the Hamptons, a string of summer resort communities along the Atlantic Ocean beaches, Suffolk has 40,000 acres of cropland that has made it the most productive farm county in New York State. The land is also perfect for developers-pancake flat and on the edge of the sprawling metropolitan area formed by New York City and its neighboring Nassau County suburbs. To keep the developers from obliterating Suffolk's rural character, the citizens of the county have...
Before the order passed. Fineberg termed his local's appeal to the council "almost a last resort...
...last resort would be the possibility that workers would find that the attitude of the city was such that they couldn't continue to work for the city," he said...
...food crisis is immense, yet a real solution can not resort to coercion and callousness. Man need not be seen as a cancerous evil. Indeed, as Blake wrote, "Where nature is and man is not, nature is barren." A true solution must affirm the worth and goodness of man, while recognizing the evil he has done. A true solution must be one that speaks for those who are voiceless...
...EGYPT'S REFUSAL TO SIGN A NONBELLIGERENCY AGREEMENT. We were ready to accept a text committing us not to resort to the use of force during the peace process. The difference between this and nonbelligerency is that if I had agreed to the latter while part of my land and other Arab land is occupied it would mean I am inviting the occupiers to stay. But agreeing not to resort to force during the peace process means we would continue to push the peace process to a final solution...