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...reaction the Bush administration provided $5.5 million “in technical assistance and grants” to affected nations throughout Southeast Asia throughout the past year. On May 11, 2005 an emergency appropriations bill, signed by Bush, suitably gave a further $25 million to prevent and control the spread of the disease...
Presented with such grave statistics and histories the natural response to hearing about the bird flu is one of great alarm. Now, consider the worrying spread of the disease in Asia, and then think back to the government’s abysmal actions in the face of Katrina and Iraq. If the outbreak of bird flu does occur within human populations it will pose a far larger threat to all humanity than natural disasters or war. And that’s nothing to sneeze...
...should not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons; the world will become a more dangerous place with another nuclear power. This is a simple policy with an equally simple, but vitally important rationale—it is the basis of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which has stemmed the spread of atomic weapons for more than 30 years...
...Agency Director, is clearly one such specific individual whose guilt was exposed in the wake of the response. And, most importantly, the federal government’s shockingly slow and disorganized response to a disaster of such enormity is worthy of the strongest public reproof. With enough blame to spread all over, any attempt to spin it solely in one direction is misguided...
While its youngest talent spread out to a spate of regattas spanning New England, four of the Crimson’s elder statesmen piled into larger craft this weekend at the New England Sloops Championships, held at the Coast Guard Academy...