I don't understand what the big fear is here:
Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.
Either we've run out of exotic animals to study in the wild, or we have a whole new, lazier breed of biologists:
Squirrels hit the genetic lottery with their chubby cheeks and bushy tails. It's hard to imagine picnickers tossing peanuts and cookies at the rodents if they looked like rats.
But good looks alone don't get you through Chicago winters. Nor do they help negotiate a treacherous landscape of hungry cats, cars and metal traps.
This is one of those stories in which each reader can choose the villain, depending on one's philosophical predilection.
All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a giant Jewish menorah to the holiday display as a rabbi had requested.
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I don't know the intimate details of Everyday Math, so I can't argue for against it with any certainty. But it sounds an awful lot like the New Math, another one of the reinventions of math teaching we seem to want to go through every 20 years or so:
I love this recommendation, tucked inside the report of the Iraq Surrender Study Group:
This diplomatic effort should include every country that has an interest in avoiding a chaotic Iraq, including all of Iraq's neighbors. Iraq's neighbors and key states in and outside the region should form a support group to reinforce security and national reconciliation within Iraq, neither of which Iraq can achieve on its own.
I know many libertarians will decry this move as another attempt by the nanny state to protect us from things we might not want to be protected from:
Following the New York City Board of Health's unanimous decision to phase trans fats off the city's restaurant menus, experts say the move could be an important step in saving many people from heart disease.
Here's a controversy we're not likely to have in Fort Wayne:
SAN FRANCISCO - Apparently, not everyone enjoys the smell of oven-fresh chocolate chip cookies while waiting for their bus.
Another brave American takes on the despicable neighborhood-association tyrants:
World War II veteran Robert Goergen knows he's breaking the rules at his home in Lino Lakes, yet he vows to fight for his right to fly his beloved United States flag as it was meant to be flown -- high and free in the wind.
I wouldn't call this guy a liar, but he's certainly trying to create a false impression:
The national commander of the American Legion never served in Vietnam although he describes himself as a "Vietnam veteran," a newspaper reported Sunday.
Paul Morin, who was elected Aug. 31 to a one-year term as commander of the nation's largest veterans organization, spent his time in the Army from 1972 to 1974 at Fort Dix, N.J., The Boston Sunday Globe reported.
Finally, a columnist says out loud what many people seem to believe:
So allow me to propose the unthinkable: Maybe, just maybe, our best option is to restore Saddam Hussein to power.
