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When the WorldCom scandal broke, Martha Stewart must have smiled. Here, surely, was deliverance--a fresh spectacle that would shift the fickle spotlight of the tabloids and TV shows away from insider-trading allegations against the Diva of Domesticity and onto some other supposed villain...
...price was paid in loss of habitat for the wildlife that thrived on the river's natural ebb and flow. Environmentalists are proposing a policy shift that would use the Missouri's dams to restore the river's traditional behavior, unleashing a surge of water southward in the spring and allowing the flow to dwindle in summer, as it once did. The plan has triggered a fiery debate, roughly pitting northerners, who benefit from the river's natural attractions, against southerners, ranging from barge haulers to farmers, who benefit from the river's commercial properties. It's a debate...
...wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long...We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." The speech, wrote Peter Riddell, a sober columnist for the London Times, "signaled the most far-reaching shift in American foreign policy for more than 50 years...
...timing of a concept called the Rapture, drawn from the Apostle Paul's prediction that believers would fly up to meet Christ in heaven. Most theologians understood it as part of the Resurrection at time's very end. Darby repositioned it at the Apocalypse's very beginning, a small shift with large implications. It spared true believers the Tribulation, leaving the horror to nonbelievers and the doctrinally misled, thus moving Christianity's us-vs.-them concept of heaven and hell into a new and exciting theater...
...executing the retarded was in Penry's case in 1989. At that time just two states, Georgia and Maryland, forbade it. Now 18 do--almost half the number, 38, that permit capital punishment. In the majority opinion he wrote last week, John Paul Stevens called that a "dramatic shift in the state legislative landscape." Antonin Scalia, who wrote for the dissenters--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas were the other two--declared that the majority's decision rested upon nothing but "the personal views of its members...