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Throughout the world, environmentalists look to America to provide leadership, but instead the nation sits on its hands like a perplexed giant. Both individually and at the policy level, Americans seem to be all for environmental protection, so long as it does not disrupt business as usual. Though the U.S. is the world's biggest contributor to the industrial and automobile emissions that threaten to wreak havoc with the global climate, none of the past three Administrations have delivered a national energy policy...
What is clear is that some of the most critical Americans seem satisfied with Saudi Arabia's contributions. Three other states have largely escaped criticism. Britain has committed 35,000 of its best troops, or about 11% of its total military personnel, to the multinational force facing Iraq. Turkey has risked Saddam Hussein's vengeance by turning over air bases to American planes that might bomb Iraq and by shutting off one of Iraq's most important oil pipelines, at great economic cost to itself. Egypt -- which is sending two mechanized divisions totaling 30,000 personnel to Saudi Arabia...
...electricity cause cancer? In a society that literally runs on electric power, the very idea seems preposterous. But for more than a decade, a growing band of scientists and journalists has pointed to studies that seem to link exposure to electromagnetic fields with increased risk of leukemia and other malignancies. The implications are unsettling, to say the least, since everyone comes into contact with such fields, which are generated by everything electrical, from power lines and antennas to personal computers and microwave ovens. Because evidence on the subject is inconclusive and often contradictory, it has been hard to decide whether...
Rarely had a consensus congealed so fast among politicians and pundits. In late November it became an insiders' article of faith that George Bush and his party would create a powerful 1992 campaign issue from the resentment of white voters toward programs that seem to benefit minorities unfairly. The main dealer of that racial card was William Bennett, an articulate critic of affirmative-action schemes and Bush's choice to be the new Republican Party chairman. But after a stiff internal debate, the Administration put that strategy on hold. Then Bennett astonished Washington last week with word that he would...
...cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms of navigation that often get them lost. The earth is home, and all its refugees, its homeless, sometimes seem a sort of advance guard of apocalypse. They represent a principle of disintegration -- the fate of homelessness generalized to a planetary scale...