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...have the means at our disposal to minimize the possibility of error. And where lives are at stake, we have a responsibility to put those tools...
...wouldn't matter so much if the whole existence of digital music in the MP3 format weren't at stake. A few months ago MP3 reigned supreme with dozens of MP3 players crowding the market and at least 60 million users downloading from Napster to their heart's content. Now the player market has imploded, Napster is near death's door and (not coincidentally) the music industry is subtly beginning to push a new standard, DVD audio...
...Indeed, it is Powell himself who demands that in such situations, only “overwhelming force” be employed (at least when American lives are at stake). Israel has not yet come close to using such force; its responses to date, including the demolition of terrorist bases close to the Gaza border, have been incredibly restrained relative to the measures most nations surely would have taken in similar circumstances. Powell’s double-standard with respect to Israel is inappropriate and unhelpful to the cause of peace in the Middle East...
Besides the candidates themselves, few people had a greater stake than Brazile in the outcome of the November election-an election that lasted through December, ending with the Supreme Court injunction to stop a recount in the state of Florida, the deciding factor that propelled then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush into the While House over former Vice President Gore...
Those choices still have to get by the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, which meets next Monday, and through Congress, where the CRC has some passionate supporters. At stake, they say, is the mission of the 155-year-old institution: Is it a place where people do science or go to look at it? "The big challenge here," says Small, "is we've got to get a story about science that's completely understandable. To get money in wholesale amounts, you have to sell concepts." In other words, more giant pandas and fewer tree kangaroos...