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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING 2005 You may request any of these articles to Jorge Mata: press@atlanticpacificalliance.com
Indonesia Largest Recipient of U.S. Government Tsunami
Aid / Hearts and Minds / Fighting to Win / Al-Qaeda in Gaza / CAIR's Ahmed
Bedier shows his true colors / To check mosques or not to check mosques? /
Iraq: Our Iranian Policy / A Foot Soldier in the Enemy's Trenches / The New
York Times vs. America / NSA, FISA / Tom Tancredo's Wall / Byrd Defeated / New
York's transit strike was a wake-up call on pension costs / Hollywood, the
Remake / Hwang: South Korea gains a hero -- and then loses him! / 'Tis the
Season -- for Hypochondria / The Tories engage in paparazzi policy making / The
cause of high accident rates and low productivity / The Rise of China's Soft
Power / 'Fiddling,' as Entitlement Costs Cripple Economies / Environmentalists
have hurt a lot of underdogs in their lust for power / Sudden Climate
Transitions / Heat and Cold-Related Deaths / Is Tennessee Melting? /
Researchers Show How Tuberculosis Drug Works /
FISA, NSA / Humanitarian Crises, NGOs, UN / Waiting
for real aid / Fake but accurate. Again / Travels with Cheney / As Ariel Sharon
starts his own party, Israeli politcs might finally focus on economics / Health
reform is gaining traction in the marketplace / The charges against Ayman Nour
are baseless / Arctic Meltdown / Prudence, skepticism, and "unbought
grace" / A decidedly undiplomatic tirade by Kofi Annan / Taxpaying
Australian citizen / How did anti-democrat Putin come to be hosting the Group
of Eight? / All in All, a Pretty Good Year / Operation Iraqi Children / Earth's
Albedo in Decline / Polar bears defy extinction threat
U.S. Provides Hazard Warning Expertise to Indian Ocean
Nations /
Emergency Food Aid for Africa / U.S. Assistance
Exceeds $840 Million One Year After Tsunami / Iraq: Fighting the Good Fight /
Domestic Surveillance, National Security and Civil Liberties / Wiretaps &
Congressional Authorization to Use Military Force / About Judge James
Robertson, FISA Court, the Magnificent Seven, and Kenneth Starr's Investigation
/ Iraq and Moral Distortion / US Budget / Trade and Agricultural Subsidies /
Progress on kidney cancer, and even at the FDA / Germany forgives a torturer in
its midst / Padilla Put-Down / The heat on Syria must be turned up, not down /
Are antiglobalizers losing their mojo? / A Modest (Tax) Proposal in the EU /
It's unlikely that the EU will introduce a U.S.-style "tort machine"
/ The larger the challenge, the smaller our politics becomes / All About Evo /
Parents, Pricing, and TV Programming: The Competition Option / Bugatti-Veyron /
Global Surface Temperature Trends / Proving Science Bias / The Story of Wheat /
Federal Preemption and State Anti-GM Food Laws
Bolton: UN Peacebuilding Commission can make important
contribution / U.S., U.N. Helping to Avert Famine in Southern Africa / Wind
farm firm 'inflated figures' / Roberts 'puzzled' by Rockefeller's concerns /
Clinton Claimed Authority to Order No-Warrant Searches / President had legal
authority to OK taps / Our Domestic Intelligence Crisis / Signal intelligence,
NSA / ANWR & Energy Independence / Alito's Ethics: A preview of coming
distractions / Chinook Diplomacy / General Motors: The Road Ahead / Scary: A
telephone conversation with Eliot Spitzer / Manila's politicians serve
themselves, not others / Yasser Abbas: Under his leadership, the Palestinians
continue to glorify terrorists / Europe often forgets who the real enemy is /
The U.S. and India: A Relationship Restored / Public transportation, the dark
side of the Emerald City / NSA Eavesdropping and Media Double Standards / More
Confusion About the Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation / A 300-Year Multi-Proxy
Hydro-Ecological Record from Spruce Island Lake, Canada / Late-Holocene Drought
on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula / Late Holocene Glacial Variations in Italy /
North American Boreal Productivity Trends: 1982-2003 / Effects of Bleaching and
Cyclones on Coral Reefs of French Polynesia / Melanoma risk only partially
associated with exposure to UVB from sunlight / India: Researchers to speed up
‘golden rice’ yield
U.S. Has Spent More than $1 Billion Dollars on Land
Mine Removal / Germany Releases U.S. Patriot's Hezbollah Murderer / Optimism
About Iraq – in Iraq / Immigration Plans Need a Foreign Policy Component /
Alaska oil drilling myths / Iran's Interference in Iraq / My Gloom: Back to
September 10 / WTO Success Depends on EU Farm Tariff Cuts / Patriot Act
Showdown / Iran: banning Western music / The delights of a unionized public
workforce / The phony uproar over NSA intercepts / Great American Dream Machine
/ Grade Conflation: Harvard Biz School / Hong Kong's Crucial Vote / Foreign Partners
Benefit China's Banks / One million children could be saved each year with
existing vaccinations / What Would Reagan Do? / After a recent ECJ ruling, many
experts wondered which side won / Film Review: “Munich” / Computer Models Don’t
Always Work / Patenting genetic or biological resources without the consent of
the country of origin / Raw milk strikes again / Effective, safe anthrax
vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants / Undermining the Genetic Revolution in
Agriculture / Dead Sea fungus's secret of survival may help crops
USAID Support for Elections in
Monday Dec 19. 2005
Top 10 Worst Moments for Free Enterprise in 2005 /
ANWR / Muslim Gang Rapes and the Aussie Riots / Race Was No Factor In Who Died
from Hurricane Katrina / Iraq: Talkers here, doers there / Another Flawed
Election in Venezuela / In Iran, Arming for Armageddon / The Iraqi elections
really could be a turning point / Trading Blows: France wins, the world's poor
lose / Some of Iran's "opinions" may be dangerous for Europeans to
"tolerate" / Putin's Payroll: The Kremlin tries out its version of
Oil for Food / The BlackBerry / Democracy at War: What Tocqueville can
contribute / New poll shows support for the U.S. has surged in Pakistan /
Kasparov: Gerhard Schröder joins the Putin administration / The chèque
britannique has become an end in itself / The Mystery of China's Sinking Stocks
/ Iran's President Has His Eye on Armageddon / Laszlo Kovacs: The Marks &
Spencer ruling underlined the need for more efficiency / Comments on the Media
Report that 2005 is (or is nearly so) a Record Hot Year / Newspeak in Montreal
/ Bill Clinton, Enviros Failed in Montreal / Lead Did in Beethoven? / ASTMH
Presentations on DDT / USAID has announced significant changes to its malaria
control program / Cancer Clusters Look Less Manmade
Churchill on defeatists / Defeatists and the
"Cost" of the War in
WTO Hong Kong Meeting Deserves America's Support /
Climatologists' protests drowned in a sea of environmentalist bafflegab / Kyoto
Protocol does little for the environment / “World Reaches Warming Pact” again,
only not really / DDT / Breeding Freedom / Miss Rice to the Europeans: / The
Heritage Foundation's Research on Immigration and Border Security / Congress's
Budget Reconciliation Package & Hospital Specialization / Is Congress
finally getting serious about federal spending? / Hon Condoleezza Rice:
International Support for Iraqi Democracy / GM: A program that pays laid-off
employees for not working / Pataki shouldn't succumb to the transit union's
holiday blackmail / Beijing cuts taxes -- but only for foreigners / Doha's
stall over farm subsidies may be a blessing in disguise / A reporter talks
about why he left the Journal to join the Marines / To bring undocumented
immigrants into the open, we must give them a reason / EU competition policy
comes a long way from GE-Honeywell / Free Farm Trade: Blame for the impasse
over subsidies lies heavily with the EU / Judges gone wild / Secular Education
Loses the Faith / Jihad on Campus / Is Carbon Sequestration More Complicated
than Presented in the Kyoto Protocol? / How accurate did GCMs compute
insolation? / Reconditioned Medical Devices / High intake of dietary fiber not
associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer
US Response to Pakistan Earthquake / U.S. Official at
WTO Cites Leadership on Both Trade and Aid / U.S. Trade Representative Rebuts
EU Criticism over Food Aid / The International-Law Trap / Preserve the Patriot
Act / Ahmadinejad: Politely Eliminating Israel / The September 11 Commission
Report Card / Dispelling Myths About Iraq / Conference on global warming /
Democrats seek flexibility on Iraq while denying it to the nation's
policy-makers / A better regulatory idea for the for-profit NYSE / Syria's
Terror Campaign / CDC: Deadly Avian Spending Virus / Africa Needs Freer Markets
-- and Fewer Tyrants / Lessons of democracy and accountability for the Arab
world / Iraq's constitution has created probably the weakest federation in the
world / The ECJ Fudge / Squabbling in Kuala Lumpur / The Murder of a Journalist
/ China's Spiraling Unrest / Asean has a chance to build a community rooted in
democratic values / Prius / Europe's court system is too busy to review
antitrust cases in a timely manner / A Saudi Prince boasts about his ability to
change news reports / Kyoto & US / Long-term variations of the surface
pressure in the North Atlantic and possible association with solar activity and
galactic cosmic rays / Environment and Cancer: The Links Are Elusive / Looking
for a source for childhood obesity? / Bollworm resistance to Bt cotton in
Statement on the Organization of Islamic Conference
(OIC) Summit Declaration / Perpetuating Poverty: UNRWA, Palestinian refugee
camps / Jack Murtha and the Lessons of Vietnam / Denying the Soviet Holocaust /
A little honesty in the interrogation debate / Campaign-finance reform /
Welcome to Hong Kong, Where the protesting is also duty free / Don't Give Up on
Doha / Jihad or Ballot-Box? / EU Budget / In 'Syriana' Hollywood Goes Wobbly /
There Are Always Barbarians at the Gates / Don't Cut-and-Run on Campus, Either
/ Interview with Suicide Killers's Author, Pierre Rehov / Firlm Review:
"Memoirs of a Geisha" / Nuclear energy and climate change, Montreal /
Comments on the UCAR Press Release on the Feddema Article / Slim = sad. Fat =
happy / Report: Mercury Scare Campaigns Unfounded
The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing /
Podhoretz: The Panic Over
Friday Dec 09. 2005
Jobs Rebound and Unemployment Falls as Bush Economic
Policies Come into Effect / Iran, the bomb and Bush / Trade—the Missing Link to
Opportunity / DNC Chair Howard Dean Makes History On Iraq / Saddam and his
defense team try to make a mockery of the trial / DeLay, Earle / Culture Shock
in Montreal / Grading Congressional Tax Bills / When Government Regulations
Hinder Security: Shoulder-Fired Missile Defenses / FEMA: Analysis and Proposals
/ Budget Reconciliation Guide for Conferees / After Katrina: How Congress
Should Ensure Health Insurance Continuity / James Buchanan’s three
constitutional amendments / Jihadism and the Qur’an: Oriana Fallaci’s words
stir up heated controversy / Immigration Policies / Relative Corruption / The
SEC's hedge fund scheme / Iraq's Post-Saddam Economy / The French welfare
system is fighting a losing battle against fraudsters / Japan: Bringing Back
the Beef / The "secret CIA prisons" story / East Asian Summit /
Valerie Plame Raccoon Hunt May Bag Media / Chile: How far from capitalism will
the next president stray? / Uncertainties In Climate Trends: Lessons from
Upper-Air Temperature Records / An Indian Summer Monsoon Solar Link / Ice
Stream Catchments Feeding the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica / Six
Centuries of Eastern Mediterranean Precipitation / Day-Only or 24-Hour
Atmospheric CO 2 Enrichment: Does It Make a Difference? / Atmospheric CO 2
Enrichment and Ectomycorrhizal Infection of Red Pine Trees / Learning to Love
Sprawl / Childhood Obesity
US Leadership in Providing Access to Medicines / U.S.
Energy Department Sets Plan on Zero-Emissions Power Plant / United States To
Fund Transportation Project In Aceh, Indonesia / U.S. Promoting More Efficient
Use of Energy in Caribbean Basin / Free markets and environment / Kyoto &
Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate Change / Dispelling
Myths About Iraq / Chechen Jihad / Condi's Star is Rising / The Big Black Book
of Saddam's Horrors / Silicosis scams / Tax-Cut Deadline: the 15% rate on cap
gains and dividends / Rob Reiner's universal preschool initiative: a
soak-the-rich scheme? / Money Buys Happiness / David Cameron, Tories / After
France, Who will be next? / Kazakhstan, progress on democrac, OSCE /
Indonesia's Encouraging Cabinet Reshuffle / China's Official Gangsterism / Gold
Rush: What's Driving Up The Price? / Detroit: Motown Loses Its Mojo / Israel's
Campus Watch / Senator Bingaman's Climate Proposal / European Union emission
targets / Dispatches from the Montreal U.N. Climate Conference / Growing more
forests in United States could contribute to global warming / CO2, Methane and
Temperature: More Insights from the Dome Concordia and Vostok Ice Cores /
Cancer team make 'super-broccoli' / Pakistan Govt to allow BT cotton farming
EMP: A Terrorist’s Dream, An American Nightmare /
Detecting terrorists just got a whole lot harder / The PA's New Terror Law /
Monster: Mao Zedong / Mock outrage over "secret" terror prisons /
Ticking Tehran Bomb / What Greenspan Really Said / Tom DeLay's Woes / Health
Savings Accounts / China & Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko /
Italy's Banks / Costs of Failure at the Doha Round / Beijing's Hong Kong
Dilemma / The battle for the future of TV / Airbus & Boeing / Roger A.
Pielke Sr. Public Comment on CCSP Report “Temperature Trends in the Lower
Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences” / What planet
are the eco-cultists on? / Carbon Emissions Trading / Study: Elevated
atmospheric CO2 increases soil carbon / Is there a long-term trend in the thermohaline
circulation? / Comment on Bryden et alii's paper on thermohaline circulation
shutdown / Scary stories about dire effects from global warming &
& fish / Children's Weight Linked to Mother's Status Before Pregnancy
U.S. productivity revised up to 4.7%- Unit labor costs
fall 1%, signaling low inflation / U.S. Forces Still Needed in Japan / A Moral
War / Berlin: Muslim Immigration / Some “determined to ignore progress in Iraq”
/ Ramsey Clark in Baghdad / ElBaradei: Iran "is months away from nuclear
weapons" if it acquires the full fuel cycle / Reform, U.N.-Style / Parties
loyal to Chavez won every congressional seat in a Saddam-like sweep / Patrick
Fitzgerald's modified, limited hangout / Why not junk the new Medicare prescription
drug program? / Blair's EU budget offends friends and principles / Two
pro-Western Muslim states flunk a democracy test / Taiwan's New Political
Landscape / The new globalization is about heavier manufacturing, particularly
cars / The Bush critics know full well what the Bush doctrine is all about /
The School that Terrorism Built / China refuses to cut energy use / Could the
Warm Bias Identified in the Pielke and Matsui 2005 GRL Paper Explain a
Significant Portion of the Reported Surface Air Warming of the Northern
Hemisphere? / Shutdown of the thermohaline circulation /
Investigate the CIA /
US Will Spend $3.2 Billion on AIDS Relief in 2006 / US
Announces $7 Million in Wildlife Conservation Grants / Al-Jazeera TV Staff in
Ramallah in Anti-Bush Demonstration / Anonymous CIA sources spun the
interrogation of Abu Zubaydah / Bush’s Iraq plan clear / Property Rights
Protection Get Bogged Down / Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution /
Congress and the Naturalization of Immigrants / Entitlement-Driven Long-Term
Budget Substantially Worse Than Previously Projected / Condi vs. Hillary /
Can't we criticize a Congressman's cowardly cut-and-run plan? / Muhammad Ali’s
“Beautiful Soul” / Asbestos litigation machine / A chance to remake New
Orleans's failing schools / The good news is that the bad news is wrong /
Beijing panics ahead of a key street protest / India: The Forgotten Asian Tiger
/ Compared to its neighbors, Kazakhstan is a great success / Thai Democracy on
the March / Bush & Iraq War / Climate Change Fiction in Montreal Is Fact in
Ottawa / Bruce Willis / My Afghan Captivity / Importance of Land-Surface Types
Including Urbanization on Surface Temperatures / New Antibody Shows Promise as
Anthrax Cure
Nature Review Cancer, www.nature.com/nrc: Wealth, not
chemicals, increase breast cancer risk
Vision for immigration reform / U.S. Budget Process
Needs an Off Switch / CIA & Leaking / Toward Europe? / Anti-Bush Reporting
Ignores Larger Issues / Wake up and listen to the muezzin / Lobbyist named Jack
Abramoff / How jihadist groups are using organized-crime tactics--and profits--
/ Set the Record Straight on Iraq / Harry Reid / Christian Peacemaker Teams / A
Real Education / Iran buying satellite know-how / 'Complete Victory': A
strategy beyond "staying the course" in Iraq / So much for those
predictions of recession / Talk of a housing bubble has bumped positive
economic news out of the headlines / Personal-injury lawyers have made vaccines
more expensive and less available / Europe's 'Moral Outrage' / Indonesia's Step
Forward / ECB is right to start normalizing its currency policy / Europe's
Energy Problems / Japan's Role in International Security / Rising academic
standards / New Antarctic Ice Core CO2 and Proxy Temperature Data / A
Half-Century of North American Snow Cover / Explaining Contradictory Evidence
Regarding Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops / Transgenic rice for allergy
immunotherapy / Glyphosate inhibits rust diseases in glyphosate-resistant wheat
and soybean
Myth and Memory in the American Identity / Challenges
Facing Europe in a World of Globalization / Meeting the 21st Century Security
Challenges in Asia / Assessment of the Response to Hurricane Katrina / Border
Security / Why Kyoto will vanish into hot air, by Bronwen Maddox / Death
Penalty / The economic landscape is littered with examples of creative
destruction / Massachusetts & health insurance reform / Iraq's a Lost
Cause? / Hezbollah's Plan to Undermine Lebanon / Windfall Accounting Tax /
BlackBerry Blackout / Oil For Friends: Hugo Chávez repays his Congressional
amigo / America needs millions more engineers and IT workers / Protectionist
urge / ECB & raising rates / Debunking Myths About Asia's Service
Industries / Hybrid technology is not "green" technology -- it's
merely an expensive option / Free legal advice, courtesy of Parmalat / Oriana
Fallaci and the War Against Islamofascism / Mary Mapes, 60 Minutes, Dan Rather
/ The Coming $100 Laptop Tragedy / Is “Global Dimming’” Really Global? / The
global warming joke / Global Warming Overkill / Climate Policy Needs a Stern
Review / Does Stress Cause Cancer? Probably Not / Teflon Chemical
Middle East Surprises / The Truth about Torture /
Intifada ad infinitum / Ariel Sharon / The Rosenberg Spy Ring / Mengistu /
Conversation with Max Boot on the Right Track in Iraq / NCPA: Montreal Climate
Conference to Vindicate U.S. Policy / Iraq: Planning to Win / Enforcement alone
won't stop immigrants from coming / Randy Cunningham / More money doesn't
guarantee better educated kids / Lieberman: Our Troops Must Stay / Why are
Republican leaders governing like Democrats? /
U.S., China To Cooperate on Detecting Illicit Nuclear
Material / White House Setting the Record Straight About Sen. Biden Plan on
Iraq / Buckley at 80 / Should Bush and Blair Consider Bombing Al Jazeera? /
C'est la vie in France / Iraq War Debate / Iran's ongoing nuclear lies / Arab
League, Iraqi ‘Resistance’ / The US is Serious on Democracy in Azerbaijan /
‘Realists’ on Iraq & Krauthammer / No hype needed: Saddam, al-Qaida linked
/ Israel's story is the story of the West / Black leaders switch to GOP in
Florida / What Oil for Food says about Kremlin promises on Iran / Why the
dollar is strong despite the U.S. current-account deficit / NATO vs. Islamist
Terror / Alito and Abortion / Free Trade & Hong Kong / Retirement saving /
The fine line between velvent and violent divorce / Vietnam and the WTO / Mark
Warner Is a Democrat To Watch / Benjamin Friedman’s ‘The Moral Consequences of
Economic Growth’ / Robert D. Kaplan's 'Imperial Grunts: The American Military
on the Ground' / Richard Schickel's 'Elia Kazan' / Market-Based
Environmentalism Is An Oxymoron / Warm Bias in the Nightime Land Surface
Temperature Record? / Comment on the David Parker’s article “Large-scale
warming is not urban” not published / Nuclear waste at
US Provides Assistance to Flood Victims in Honduras /
Blocking Property of Persons Undermining Democratic Processes in Zimbabwe /
Message by the President on the Second Anniversary of the Rose Revolution / So
near in Iraq, so far at home / Venezuela's Oil Shenanigans / Is Iraq a Poor
Man's War? / Reform of Agricultural Trade Needed / Padilla in Court /
Attempting to protect workers from all risk turns out to be very risky / A
currency isn't a true commodity / Lo, the Pilgrims Gave Thanks Without a
Lawsuit / The Ariel Route / Why Latin Nations Are Poor
Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving / Asian Values /
US Agencies Award $32 Million To Sequence Corn Genome
/ Federal Government, Insurance, Spending / Pilgrims Beat 'Communism' With Free
Market / Sam Alito / Georgia / Three Bush Secretaries Article: Rescuing Your
Retirement / Sasol's Potential Climate Solution / South Korea, Liberalization /
Arash Sigarchi / Tax-Reform Hopes / Chalabi / A chronicle of the year 1620 by
Nathaniel Morton, keeper of the records of Plymouth Colony / Bill Clinton:
Reflections on keeping the peace, 10 years after Dayton / Immigrants tend to
mention Thanksgiving as their favorite holiday / With a stake in their nation's
oil wealth, Iraqis would choose commerce over violence
/ Hong Kong's Democrats Hit the Road / What Really
Happened on Bush's Asia Visit / Why the public believes in gasoline
conspiracies / Managers spend twice as much time bribing officials in the old
Soviet bloc as in the West / Book Review: With the Best of Intentions / The
Never-Ending War: The Battle Over America's Self-Meaning / Sasol's Potential
Climate Solution / FOX News Misled Viewers on Climate Science / Some sea-level
sanity / Iran, First to Plant GMO Rice
Malaria, Africa, DDT: USAID Anticipates Nearly $100
Million for Spraying Program / Listen to the word on the 'Arab street' / List
of the tax cut provisions and when they would expire / Regarding Daniel
Benjamin’s views on Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda / Old Wily Bin Laden: ‘Boogie
to Baghdad’ / Iraq: How to Lose a War / Wal-Mart Critics Reading from an Old
Script / CIA interrogators not using all weapons / Sign of Al Qaeda Desperation
/ The decline of unionized Detroit; the rise of other workers / Oil Crisis /
Byrd & Protectionism / Atta in Prague? / Hedge funds Ariel Sharon's decision
to leave the Likud /
Woodward and the Plame affair / "Precautionary
principle" importation to US / Black Activists Support Increased Domestic
Oil Exploration / Global Warming, Global Governance / Iraq & Vietnam /
Poverty, Environmentalists & DDT / Japan: A Liberal, Nationalistic Defense
Transformation / Middle East's Real Bane: Corruption / Florida and South
Carolina: Two Serious Efforts to Improve Medicaid / By killing dozens of fellow
Muslims, Zarqawi may have changed the course of the war / Al-Hurrah Television
and Lessons for US Public Diplomacy / China’s Energy Stance / Amman: reminder
that Iraqis have been involved with terrorism for a long time / Mongolia is an
important partner for Washington / Campaign finance law / China's road to
financial reform / 'Catalonia Is a Nation', by Pasqual Maragall / College
Professors: Better Tenure and Hiring Policy / Book Review: Carter's Our
Endangered Values / "Siberian residents will be affected by the melting of
permafrost" / New Procedure for Climate Model Parameterizations / Costs
and Benefits of Regulating Mercury / US health-care system
Update on U.S. Response to Pakistan Earthquake / US
Marks 15 Years of Improving Air Quality / Roberts, Alito / When Protecting
Nature Means Kicking People Out / The New Bolsheviks: Understanding Al Qaeda /
Europe's Kyoto Bill / Kyoto & Skeptics / Persuading terrorists is no
friendly game / Congress sends the wrong signal to Iraqis / Clinton: The former
President rethinks his Iraq policy / Kasparov: Russia accelerates its backslide
from democracy / Egypt: Age-old decree is a monument to the Copts' lowly status
/ President Bush's support of religious freedom in China / Fini: Europe must do
more than issue "solemn declarations" / Japan: Troubles in the
Imperial Household illustrate Japan's gender problems / What If People Start
Believing That 'Bush Lied'? / Why Fox's Outrage? Chávez's Meddling in Mexico /
William F. Buckley, Jr / Walter Duranty's Pulitzer / Edward R. Murrow and Sen.
Joseph McCarthy / Book Review of Senator Boxer's A Time To Run / Atmospheric
Chemistry Within the Climate System / Comments to Nature article: “warming
waters are expected to disrupt growth of krill” / Regional sun–climate interaction
/ The End of Pandemics
United States Tough on Environmental Crime in 2005 /
The ‘Torture’ Memo / McCain Amendment / Taxes on Oil Profits / Democrats on
Saddam Hussein before 2003 / Why do we love life? / Where the WMDs Went /
Jordanians Are Shocked -- Shocked! -- That A Wedding Would Be Blown Up / Ahmed
Chalabi / Get Real About China / Setting the Record Straight: The New York
Times Editorial on Pre-War Intelligence / Tory Climate Change / Piracy 'has
never been reduced through any process of negotiation' / Will Mr. Fitzgerald
Now Say He Was Wrong? / Fair and balanced public TV / Why Did the 9/11
Commission Ignore 'Able Danger'? / The FTA Fetish / A Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac bill / The Web must stay free of red tape / GOP dithering over whether to
reverse tax cuts / Asia: Once the door to freedom is opened, it cannot be
closed / European 'Union Solidarity' / A Rate Rise to Avoid Deflation: European
Central Bank / Keeping China on the path of free-market reform / An edited extract
from President Bush's speech in Kyoto / The culture war pulls in combatants
from the Old West / Book Review: Stephen Breyer's Active Liberty: Interpreting
Our Democratic Constitution / Global Ocean Productivity / Potato Prognosis for
Mid-21st-Century Europe / Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery Project /
Making Sense of Drug Safety
Keep Government, Politics Out of Internet Management,
U.S. Urges / Japan-US: A Vital Alliance / America’s experience in the
Philippines during the 1899-1902 imperial wars / Economic growth is key to
increasing environmental protection in developing nations / Unconditional Debt
Relief Is a Big Mistake / Domestic Threats to Iranian Stability: Khuzistan and
Baluchistan / Specialty Hospitals / Is a Windfall Profits Tax a Good Idea? /
The Siren Song of Corporate Social Responsibility / Drug Benefit Needs a Year
On Sidelines / Policy Review for President Bush's China Visit / Bush's APEC
Trip: Strengthening Ties in Asia / Japan's emerging military might is a
counterweight to China's / Zarqawi, Jordan / European views on ICANN / European
Central Bank / Tunisia, UN Summit / France: The Islamist Battleground / Return
of the 'Open Access' Wars / Doha Round, Europe: The next round of assaults on
drug patents / U.S. culture is targeted largely because it's successful /
Hockey Stick / Climate Model Cloud Simulations / Not All Glaciers Lost Mass
Over the Past Quarter-Century / Fungi 'new tool' against malaria / Drug fakes
damage malaria control / Salt & Health / How crops decide when to flower
Demographic Characteristics of
Beijing Buses Go to Clean Diesel, with U.S. Support /
Chris Matthews gives Michael Scheuer a pass – again / Is torture the only
option? / Who Is Lying About
Update: U.S. Response to Pakistan Earthquake / Ecuador
Joining Global Pollution Control Program / US Provides Assistance to Honduran
Hurricane Victims / Verdict's In On Alito / Deadly Toys / Federalizing Disaster
Response / The Final Volcker Oil for Food Report / The Senate Reconciliation
Bill: Wrapping Doctors in More Medicare Red Tape / Islamist Threat in France /
How to create a Muslim underclass / ANWR / Economic integration is key to
moving Beijing towards political liberalization / America's Real Economy / The
War Against the Car / Haiti / One little book drives Hollywood crazy / Send
Osama's Bodyguard to a Military Tribunal / Book Review: "Do As I Say (Not
As I Do)" / Dependence on oil / Drought in Equatorial East Africa /
Climate Models Inch Towards Acknowledging the Reality of the Medieval Warm
Period and Little Ice Age / Late Holocene Variability of Florida Current
Surface Density / Global Greening Trends / Effects of Elevated CO 2 on
Competition Between a Native and an Invasive C 3 Grass
Columns of Entropy Rise Over Paris / Anti-Americanism
Has Become Ideology / Health Care Tax Credits: Alternative to Employer-Based
Coverage / American National Identity / Ben Bernanke tries to get a hold on the
U.S. economy / Deficit Reduction Act / Terrorism: The Root Causes / What the
mainstream press isn't saying about France's "disaffected" minority
rioters / Realist Genocide in Sudan / Saddam’s Nkes Does Carl Levin know
something the rest of us don't? / Information Wants to Be Free / Liberté,
Égalité, Fraternité? / GOP Wake-Up Call / Atrocity in Amman / Congress won't
accept its own tax-cut success / Pensions Unplugged / Fernando Ferrer /
California: Not Yet Ready for Catharsis / Europe's agricultural subsidies / The
vision of a European realignment with China against the U.S. is evaporating /
Virginia votes local, not national / OpinionJournal's Political Diary / Common
flame retardant poses no health risk / Limitations of Radiative Forcing as an
Indicator of Climate Change / Let DDT take care of malaria scourge / WHO to
push DDT use in new malaria fight / CFD's response to Oxfam [on drugs and
patents] / Salt, health risks / Monograph Documents Impact of Europe's
"Risk-Free" Regulatory Agenda / Role of Biotechnology for the
Characterisation and Conservation of Crop, Forest, Animal and Fishery Genetic
Resources in Developing Countries
Did the
US Joins International Crime Treaty / US Government
Dramatically Increases Use of Renewable Energy / Land for Peace Plan,
Paris-style / Joseph A. Wilson IV: The French Connection / Another look at
antiwar rally / Al-Libi and an al-Lie / Valerie Plame Update / WMDs, Iraq /
Economy in Iraq / Podesta, Iran, Khobar Towers / California's Proposition 73 /
Liberia: From Barbarity to Hope / Job Summit of the Americas / K. Natwar Singh,
India's Foreign Minister / DDT Saves Lives / Tax on the profits of American oil
companies / Stop IP Theft / Open borders and gave consumers the full benefits
of free trade / Cover-ups are almost a way of life when it comes to infectious
diseases in China / Germany / Running monetary policy / Why Are Blacks
Underrepresented in Academia? / Ecosystem Proves Resilient in Wake of Hurricane
Katrina / Some solvents with an environmentally friendly reputation may kill
fish / ERS altimeter survey shows growth of Greenland Ice Sheet interior /
Europe Risks Economic Damage from Kyoto – Study / The Spatial Complexity Of
Climate Forcings / The Green of Green Government / DDT Saves Lives in Fight
against Malaria / Biotech plan said to help genetic disease sufferers
A Dangerous New Depth of Sewer Politics / The Senate
Medicare Options: Serious Savings or Business as Usual? / The Demographics of
Military Enlistment After 9/11 / Action and Accountability: Restraining
Spending and Redesigning Government / Transportation Spending / Recent Research
on Drug Price Controls / Brazil and Intellectual Property / An Indifensible
Indictment / Why Paris Is Burning / Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands
/ Democratic senators bluff; Republicans dither / A New Clandestine Service /
Ellen Sauerbrey - forced abortion / Terrorism, torture and the American way /
Delete the U.N. from the Internet / Book Review: Justice Antonin Scalia on
Steven D. Smith's "Law's Quandary" / Europe exports its asbestos
policy with U.N. help / America's New Relationship With Japan / Iraq strategists
are looking to Vietnam for models of success / Has Feminism Failed? / Movie
Review: Getting it wrong on the Gulf War / Electrical fields 'harmless', by Ian
Sample / What is Meant by the “Global Surface-Averaged Temperature?” / How Much
Ice in the Global Cocktail? / Weather forecasting, climate prediction, chaotic
behavior, nonlinearities
Two Questions for George Tenet / If the Problem Is
Muslim Terror, Then What? / Capitalism, rising / Fight Back, Mr. President /
Will Bush fall for the advice of the Establishment? / K-12 Brainwashing / MSM
blackout on the intifada in
Joe Wilson, ‘60 Minutes’ & Plamegate / The Joe
Wilson Speech that Made Clear His Agenda / Are Terrorists POWs? / Dem Officials
Have Warned About WMDs In Iraq For Years / Iran's Declaration of War /
Spotlight on Syria / The Environmental Disaster That Wasn't / The Army's Future
/ America’s Free Trade Agenda: The State of Bilateral and Multilateral Trade
Negotiations / The Keys to a Successful Americas Summit / Keep the Internet
Free of the United Nations / Zell Miller: Rule can head off dirty tricks at CIA
/ Vioxx Verdict - II / The revolt of the well-educated, middle class youth is
on / Fitzgerald's Eight Pages / S.O.S. (Save Our Schools) / The revelation of
Valerie Plame's connection to the CIA / Next Stop, Baku / Australians Support
Tougher Laws on Terrorism / Truman Capote's Dark Visitation to a Red State /
Bush's Perilous Journey South / Politicized Pubescence / Black Activists
Denounce Racialist Newspaper Editorial / Tony Blair Aligns with Bush on Global
Warming / Status of the Greenland Ice-Sheet / Revisiting Microclimate Exposure
of Surface Air Temperature Monitoring Sites
Iran-Al Qaeda Axis:
World warned:
Airmen, Sailors join Army riggers in assembling
containers of hope for Pakistan / Gas price madness / The Eco-Cowboys: Big land
buys signal greens are moving into ranching / Iran's Final Solution Plan / The
Suicide Bombers Among Us / Prosecutorial zeal / A Fight Worth Having: Alito /
Progress against Syria, in the U.N. fashion / Growth-stimulating tax reform /
Belgium has not embraced full transparency in opening its farm subsidies books
/ Oil for Ethics / India cannot remain aloof from the war on terror / China /
Now that politics has been criminalized, can reporting on politics be far
behind? / Murder, Lies, and Videotape / Get real on climate change / Some of
recent sea level rise can be attributed to ‘recovery’ of oceans as Pinatubo’s
effects wore off / Fill 'er Up with Oils Sands! / GM soy affects posterity, or
misuse of science?
Monday Oct 31, 2005
Cuba Accepts U.S. Offer of Hurricane Assistance / Defense
Dept. Invitation to U.N. Special Rapporteurs to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba / The
Effect of State Regulations on Health Insurance Premiums / Extending the Farm
Bill Through 2011 / Congressional Action on Medicaid Reform / Why Are Members
of Falun Gong Tortured to Death? / John Kerry’s Iraq Policy / US House passes
crackdown on 'junk' lawsuits / Dan Yergin on Energy Prices and Policies / The
Senate HELP Committee Proposal for Post-Hurricane Education Relief / UNESCO,
Cultural Diversity Treaty / DDT Is Only Real Weapon to Combat Malaria / Biotech
Insects Can Improve Health, Farming
Friday Oct 28, 2005
Energy Supply Problems / The Challenges to America's
Resilience / Gas Price Madness / US GDP Revised Upwards / Gas Price Madness /
The U.N. was very, very good to Saddam Hussein / Questions for Ben Bernanke /
The Doha negotiations are in crisis / Tax harmonization / A Mixed Picture in
Japanese Trade / Jack Lang on the European Social Model / Why is the World Bank
Still Lending? / Educational Indoctrination, Year 501 / Modifications render
carbon nanotubes nontoxic / Book Reviews: The Truth about Drug Companies and On
the Take / U.S. Agencies Fund Center for Microbial Risk Assessment / Soybeans
on Mouse Fetal, Postnatal, Pubertal and Adult Testicular Development
Thursday Oct 27, 2005
Judith Miller, TNYT / Joseph Wilson's credibility /
George Galloway / Flat Tax / Covering up Iraq's quest for uranium in Africa /
Demonizing Condi / Joseph A Wilson, Niger / Davis-Bacon Act / Article by Gordon
Brown / Corruption and conflicts of interest at the UN / Syria / "Imagine
You're a Woman" / Libel Laws in the UK / AFP Doctors Story on U.S.-Syria
Deal / Climate Modeling Questions / Radiative effect of surface albedo change
from biomass burning / Pending Animal Measure Would Hurt Research / Oceanic
Transport of Heat: Deep vs. Shallow Circulation / The Canadian Arctic's
Recovery from the Little Ice Age / Climate Change in Svalbard / Soybean Pod
Yield: Positive CO 2 Effect vs. Negative O 3 Effect / Health Implications of
Asian Dust Storms for People of Taiwan / A banana bank to breed better bananas
Wednesday Oct 26, 2005
US Assisting Hurricane Wilma Response Efforts in
Mexico / Rosa Parks / Galloway Gave False And Misleading Testimony Under Oath
To Senate Subcommittee / One More Chance For Sound Energy Policy / Risk
Assessment and Risk Management for Homeland Security / Increasing the Global
Transportation Fuel Supply / The Left's "Anti"-Argument / Getting the
Military's Record Straight / The Gas PRICE Act: A Modest Step Forward in the
Post-Katrina Energy Debate / Values-Driven Healthcare / George Galloway and the
Oil-for-Food Scandal / Ben Bernanke / North Korea / The Boehner-Jindal Family
Education Reimbursement Act / Insulting Islam in Egypt / U.S., U.N. Back New
Bird Flu Control Campaign in Indonesia / U.S.-Chile Environmental Affairs
Council Announces New Projects / US Says No U.N. Body Should Control Internet
Tuesday Oct 25, 2005
International Global Ocean Observation Array Nearly
Complete / The second leak in the Plame case / Don't indict on Judy's evidence
/ Phoney Baloney / Autophagy of the Times / Contesting the Threat of Terrorism
/ Leftwing Monsters V: Joseph Stalin / Nine signals that indicate the
infiltration of militant Islam / Surveillance Supremacy / The Singapore Model
and Latin America / The Senate's $3 Billion Subsidy for Aged Television Sets /
Competition over Eurasia: Are the U.S. and Russia on a Collision Course? /
Balancing China's Growing Influence in Latin America / A Benchmark for
Assessing the Recommendations of the President's Tax Reform Panel / Blueprint
for Victory in Iraq / Movie Review of North Country / The Other Important
Culture War / The Media and Nonsense / Is Climate Prediction Sensitive To
Initial Conditions? / Can Regional Models Be Used To Obtain Skillful Higher
Spatial Resolution Climate Forecasts Decades Into The Future? / Deadly mosquito
standoff / Raise a Glass to Adult Stem Cells
Monday Oct 24, 2005
US Gives Laos $3 Million To Combat Bird Flu / Update
on U.S. Aid to Earthquake Victims / US Leading Relief Efforts in South Asia /
How the Media is Fighting for Our Enemy / The Bridge to Nowhere: A National
Embarrassment / UN's Vice Its Only Legacy / Stephen Breyer's Perpetual
Constitutional Convention / U.S. Insists on Farm Tariff Cuts Proposal from
European Union / One Good Leak Deserves Another / Patrick Fitzgerald is really
investigating a policy dispute / Assad Family Values / The Nuclear Taboo /
Google / Confidentiality and the practice of journalism / China Defines
'Democracy' / Japan Is Back, For Real This Time / Where government is the
biggest growth business / Movie Review: To Kill a Mockingbird / U.S. Opposes
"Deeply Flawed" U.N. Cultural Diversity Convention / U.S. Deeply
Disappointed by Vote on UNESCO Diversity Convention / Wilma Is Not Global
Warming / Is Global Warming the Same as Climate Change? / Performance of
Genetically Engineered Crops
Friday Oct 21, 2005
Update on U.S. Aid to Earthquake Victims / World
Progresses in Violence Prevention / House-Passed Bill Protects Endangered
Species / Providing Flood Insurance Coverage After the Disaster Is a Mistake /
A Sensible Temporary Fix for America's Foreign Worker Problem / Senate Leader
Defends Spending Spree Rather Than Enacting Reforms / Helping Colombia Sustain
Progress Toward Peace / Congressional Restraint Is Key to Successful Defense
Acquisition Reform / Palestinian Conflict / Myths To A Plame / Chomsky: The
Most Destructive Intellectual / Do college campuses lean left? / Hotter sun may
affect global warming / School soft drink consumption has no impact on
adolescent obesity / Biotech Cotton 8: Bugs 0
Thursday Oct 20, 2005
New York Times filling space / CIA and Wilson-Plame /
Sometimes it is worth going to war / World is a safer place despite people's
fears / Why not Nuevo Orleans? / The First Clash of Civilization / US Opposes
Draft U.N. Cultural Diversity Convention / South Korea's anti-American crowd /
Getting serious about spending / Article by Mahmoud Abbas / Margaret Thatcher /
New York Times Deletes 'Road Map' Reference / All the news is a stage /
Antarctic ozone hole may have peaked / Global Warming and Sea Level / Role of
Vegetation Dynamics in the Climate System / Anti-malaria mutations 'cancel each
other out' / Farmers warned free range poultry may be barred / India Seen
Okaying GMO Mustard and Rice in Next Two Years
Wednesday Oct 19, 2005
U.S. Military Busy Delivering Relief Aid to Disaster
Victims / Budget Dishonesty in the New York Times / Unmasking Mao / Missed
Images From Saturday's Historic Vote / The Justice Department's civil
racketeering suit against Big Tobacco / Saddam on Trial / Endangered Species
Act / Mugabe, star attraction at the U.N.'s World Food Day / Koizumi Stays True
to Himself / China is appalled by the success of democracy in Taiwan / Do American
Manufacturers Have a Future? / GM's War for Survival Is Just Beginning /
Reservations About Deregulation / The Harold Pinter Reader / Another UNESCO
Fiasco / Will 2005 Be The Hottest Year On Record? / Phthalates, babies / Fizzy
Drinks & Obesity
Tuesday Oct 18,2005
India, US Sign Science and Technology Agreement /
Economic weakness in Europe is the big risk, not strong growth in China / Does
Growth Lead to Liberalization? / Aviation needs foreign capital -- and
competition / Gadhafi / Trade Makes the World Go Round / Article by the of
Denmark's foreign minister & Swedish minister for industry and trade /
Article by the foreign minister of Australia / Castro's Library Pass, Part IV /
Movie Review: Good Night, and Good Luck / Cultural Diversity and Freedom at
Risk at UNESCO / Jesse Jackson and Danny Glover promote racial conflict in
Venezuela / Race and ridiculousness in sports / Class(room) Warriors / New
tissue 'grown within minutes' / The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats)?
Monday Oct 17, 2005
US Promotes Bird Flu Prevention in Southeast Asia /
Uganda: US launches programme to control malaria / Urgently Needed Food Rushed
to Central America's Hurricane Victims / Emergency AIDS Relief Plan Funds
Program in Rwanda / The EU's Regulatory Hydra; Hercules Needed / Saudi
Columnist: Jihadist Salafist Ideology is Like Nazism / Congress and Digital
Television / Iraq Votes on a Malleable Constitution / Is the European Union
Dead? / The rule of law / The U.N. has a plan to run the Internet. Uh-oh /
Sarbanes-Oxley / Another tax cut that raised revenues and created jobs / The
Sinister Mediocrity of Harold Pinter / Will China's Banking Reform Succeed? /
America's Friendship With Asia / U.S. Soldiers Are the Real Heroes in Iraq /
Germany's New Outlook / Movie Review: "The War Within" / Campus
Liberation / Media utters nonsense, won't call enemy out / Butterfly Effect /
What Arctic Warming? / Is the Biogeochemical Effect of Increased CO2 on the
Climate System a First-Order Climate Forcing? / Reforming the FDA for a new
millennium / Will 2005 Set a Record For Warmth? Does It Matter? / China in
Space / What the President Should Have Said About Bird Flu / GM coconut oil
with high lauric acid to rival canola
Sunday Oct 16, 2005
Fidel's Executioner / Base Realignment and Closure /
The Chirac Doctrine / The values of the United Nations / New Japan Is Rising /
The Myth of the "Constitution-in-Exile" Movement / The Pension
Generation / The White House, the CIA, and the Wilsons / Criminalizing
Conservatives / In Defense of Malkin / Castro's Library Pass (Part III) / Such
brilliant, substantive journalists
Friday Oct 14, 2005
A lefty blogger knows Wilson's been lying / Syrian
Interior Minister was suicided today / North Korea, the IRA and counterfeiting
/ CIA's Bad Show / Katrina and the Price of Panic / The swingin' pedulum of
feminism / One Senator's power / Bush to poor: Drop dead? / Multilateralism a
la Francaise / 'Suicide' in Syria / Article by Norman Borlaugh / Ukraine must
clean up its security service / Castro's Library Pass (Part II) / Zawahiri Does
the Media's Job / Exaggerated concern over air pollution / Variability of
Insolation at Earth's Surface: The Other Sun-Climate Connection / The Constant
Killer: Malaria / Logging does not raise flood risk / Cattle grazing may help
rather than hurt endangered species / In Birth Defect Study, No Pesticides Link
/ Why do we need a law to make us buy ethanol? / Is Nitrogen Deposition a
First-Order Climate Forcing? / Land-mine detecting plants created / Biotech
Crops Reduce Pesticide Use and Generate Additional US$27.5 Billion in Global
Farm Income
Thursday Oct 13, 2005
Katrina spawned plague of misinformation / ElBaradei's
Prize / Federal Spending: By the Numbers / From the Wall Street Journal to Iraq
/ Zawahiri's Lament / Spending cuts without reducing vital public services and
investments / Arab governments aren't doing much to help their Palestinian
brethren / China can put men into space, but can it keep the peace? / The U.S.
adopts a more coherent agriculture policy / Democracy Is the Answer in China /
The Michigan Supreme Court / Europe's risk-aversion isn't always safe /
Castro's Library Pass (Part I) / Slippery Teflon Charges Won't Stick / Quietly,
Invisibly, Ominously Getting Healthier and Healthier / 'Fat muscles' may
explain obesity / New Orleans Toxic Floodwater / Robot Driving
Wednesday Oct 12, 2005
Leon Klinghoffer: 20 Years Later / China Could Trump
N. Korea's Nuke Card / Elian Loves Big Brother / Only Threat of Force Will Tame
Tehran / Bush Declares War on Radical Islam / US Sends Help to
Earthquake-Ravaged Region / US Offers Plan on Agriculture for Hong Kong Trade
Talks / Paying for Medicare: An Economic Look at the Program's Unfunded
Liabilities / Doha's Last Chance / Merkel's First Task / What are the
prosecutors up to in the KPMG case? / The aftershocks of Pakistan's temblor
will be felt for years / In China, Buyer Beware / The Verdicts / What French,
German and Dutch voters are really saying / Mugabe by Chris Patten / A
Property-Rights Solution to China's 'Income Gap' / Representation of Political
Perspectives in Law and Journalism Faculties / Acrylamide & Cancer in
Humans / North Sea efficient sink for carbon dioxide / Sea Level Rise: How
High? / Gamma-Ray Mystery Solved / Genetic study confirms insects are still not
resistant to Bt toxin
Tuesday Oct 11, 2005
Peace is not the answer / Soros Fingerprints on DeLay
Frame-up / Ronnie Earle Should Not Be a Prosecutor / Crowning Columbus / House
Leadership Reacts To Calls For Fiscal Responsibility / Bush Speech Clarifies
the War Against Terrorism / Kazakhstan: The Democratic Path for Peace and
Prosperity / Hurricane Job Losses: How Severe? / Karen Hughes / Nobel Prize
winner Thomas Schelling / Gerhard Schröder / Chinese Brutality / Movies Review:
'Good Night'
Monday Oct 10, 2005
First Segment of Global Ocean Observing System
Complete / Statement from the Secretary of Defense on the South Asian
Earthquake / U.S. House of Representatives Approves Refinery Expansion Bill /
Conservative Disinformation About Harriet Miers / "Oil industry" is
fixing prices / Hillary Clinton fundraising event / IAEA, Iran, Nobel Prize /
Arabian Sex Tourism / Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win / Drug
re-importation / Kill Malarial Mosquitoes Now / Anti-Biotech Film a
'Crockumentary'
Friday Oct 07, 2005
Turkey / Medicare Reimbursement / Assisting
Afghanistan After the Elections / The Looming Problem of Long-Term Care and
Medicaid Spending / Fiscally Responsible Lawmakers / Perils of State Building /
The mainstream press is finally discovering the flat tax / The president's
quarantine proposal, in historical perspective / Kyoto & Economy / The EU
chooses not to stand up to Russia / India's Divided Left Undermines Growth /
The Other Gitmo: Where's the Outrage? / Caspian Oil / How Immigration Reform
Could Help Alleviate the Teacher Shortage / Britain's War on Pigs / Toppling
the Arts-Intellectual Complex / Mother-earthism infects climate change debate /
Acrylamide & cancer in humans / Pupils who eat school dinners just as
healthy, if not healthier, than those who don't / Skewed Account of Risk From
Phthalates
Thursday Oct 06, 2005
US Agencies, International Partners Fight Threats to
Wildlife / Sic Transit Maria Landrieu / Misguided Tax Reform / Special
Treatment for Airlines Flaws a Strong Senate Pension Bill / Katrina’s Forgotten
Responders: State Defense Forces Play a Vital Role / Bali / Article by Poland’s
central bank president / China, Economy and Freedom / “Extreme” and “Moderate”
Stonings and Amputations / Korea Joins International Computing Infrastructure /
Some 21st Century Ideas on Energy and Employment / Overlooked Issues in Prior
IPCC Reports and the Current IPCC Report Process: Is There a Change From the
Past? / A Multi-Proxy Holocene Climate Study of Temperate Eastern Australia /
3600 Years of Scandinavian Summer Temperature Variability / Coral Calcification
vs. pH and Aragonite Saturation State / Acquiring Extra Plant Nitrogen in a CO
2 -Enriched World / Effects of CO 2 and Drought on Isoprene Emissions from
Agriforest Cottonwood Plantations / Annual Report to the Nation on the Status
of Cancer, 1975–2002 / Medicine price controls and the Constitutional Court
decision
Wednesday Oct 05, 2005
The Katrina House Tax / Venezuela / The Case Against
British Withdrawal from Iraq / Why Bush Will Deliver on His Vow to Reform Taxes
/ Overseers of Corporate Finance Lack Accountability / Harriet Miers / Nuclear
Energy / What the Bali bombings reveal about al Qaeda / The Kidnapping of India
/ Putin / Patents / Palestinian media productions / Don't be Manipulated by the
Master Marketers / Testimony of Michael Crichton / REACH Retreat /
KwaZulu-Natal's successful fight against malaria / A Scientific and Ethical
Discussion Regarding Genetic Modification of Plants / A Nutritional Paradox
Tuesday Oct 04, 2005
U.S. Grant To Fund Study in Mali / The Plame Illusion
[Judith Miller] / Critics of the Hurricane Response Miss the Mark in Focusing
on Posse Comitatus / Security situation all across Asia is rife with major
challenges for the United States / Public Diplomacy / Sino-Russian Military
Maneuvers / Byrd Amendment / Bali in the WSJ / UK: Anti-science lessons / Sun's
direct role in global warming may be underestimated / Stehr and von Storch on
Climate Policy / Climate catastrophe cancelled: what you're not being told
about the science of climate change / I Smell a Rat / FDA may OK sale of
cloned-cow goods
Monday Oct 03, 2005
U.S.-Japan Alliance Evolving To Meet New Threats /
Judith Miller / Exporting Jobs: A Sign of Strength / A portrait of A Q Khan /
Lt. Gen. David Petraeus speaks at Princeton / Bali, Again / Sarbanes-Oxley Act
/ Germany's Bad Example for Iraq / European assertion of moral superiority on
history / Putin / Croatia / Pakistan / New York Times’ Paul Krugman, Frank
Rich: corrections policy / They Shoot Teachers, Don't They? / In response to
Associated Press article on recruitment / Anatomy of a Photograph / How
Hollywood needs to stop worrying and love the flag / Hurricanes Unrelated to
Global Warming / Arctic Ice Declines: A few things that got left out / U.S.
Bans Import of Endangered Caspian Sea Sturgeon / Wild salmon stocks leap by 40%
/ EPA Rules Raise Gas Prices / What's the Evidence for and Acrylamide and
Cancer Link? / Shaky Science at Harvard / Genetics may have saved corn crops
Friday Sep 30, 2005
U.S. Funds Clean Energy Study in Indonesia / It's a
mad, mad, mad, mad Europe / More Domestic Energy: The Right Response to Katrina
and Rita / Right Course for Evacuee Housing Assistance / Federal Spending:
Operation Offset / Fannie Mae / Snapshot of the state of the Democratic Party:
the Roberts confirmation / Trusting Mr. Frist / Eliot Spitzer / Do stem-cell
researchers really need the Feds? / Barroso's Fall Campaign / Benefits from the
end of textile quotas / China's Internet Censors / Don't Blame It All on FEMA /
A Mexican Tycoon Fights Reform of Securities Law / Ukraine / U.S. Official
Criticizes Proposed Cultural Diversity Convention / US Agency To Speed Flu
Vaccine Development / Opposition to DDT increases malaria in Uganda / Phantom
Acrylamide Menace / Arctic Sea Ice / Climate Cycle Is Primary Factor In Global
Warming, Cooling / The UN's Biotech for Food Scandal / Manure vs. Machine
Thursday Sep 29, 2005
U.S. Grant to China Will Help Protect Marine
Environment / Thermidor in Ukraine? / Sounding the Alarm Bell / Guaranteeing
Retirees' Social Security Benefits / White House Sleuths: Independent Counsels
/ Marching against War--and Jews / Saudi Arabia: Still the Face of the Devil /
The Growing Disconnect: Federal Spending and Congressional Leadership / DeLay /
Endangered Species Act / Turkey / China's Cheap Oil / Taiwan / Portugal /
Education Myths / Media Cherrypicking of the Areal Coverage of Arctic Sea Ice /
Kyoto / Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) /
Public-Private Partnership To Enhance Delivery of AIDS Drugs / Climate Change
and Insecticide in the Niger Famine / The Significance of the Vioxx Withdrawal
/ Deadly Assumptions: Radiation and Risk / Study suggests mercury in fish not
dangerous / Antibiotic Resistance Markers in GM Plants Not a Risk to Human
Health / GEOs / Hierarchical metabolomics demonstrates substantial
compositional similarity between genetically modified and conventional potato
crops
Wednesday Sep 28, 2005
Grants to Indonesia for Tsunami Reconstruction / US
Forms Global Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking / Agency Head Wanted, Wimps
Need Not Apply / House Telecom Reform Proposal / Lousiana’s Marshlands
Restoration Projects / Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy / Reports
of New Orleans Violence / Refining Incapacity / Poland / Jordan, Syria, Sunnis,
Shias / Hu Jintao / China, North Korea / Erin Brockovich / Soft Drinks as
Public Enemy #1 / Jay Gould Dead, Groundless Radiation Scares Alive / Asthma
and Air Pollution / Time to Bring Back a Miracle Drug? / Hidden costs of
biofuels / Herpes 'could control' mice plagues
Tuesday Sep 27, 2005
Removing Trade Barriers Would Aid Growth, Stem Poverty
/ Chief justice nominee John Roberts / Reports of anarchy at Superdome
overstated / Textbook Case of How Bureaucracy Kills / Katrina's Victims Deserve
Better than Medicaid / Porter Goss, CIA / Anti-War / The U.N.'s World Summit is
Wrong on Development Assistance / World Car-Free Day / The economic case for
Turkish membership in the EU / Review of Lord of War / Providing Relief to
Students Displaced by Katrina / Against the proposition that “Christian Values
Undermine American Values” / Global warming activists turn storms into spin /
Is Global Warming Spatially Complex?
Monday
Sep 26, 2005
Global Approach to Maritime Security / Government
investment of Social Security's surpluses is still a bad idea / Paying for
Katrina Relief: Cancel or Delay the Medicare Drug Benefit / Katrina: A Fair
Framework for Assessing the Response and the Next Steps / Congress Should
Protect Faith-Based Organizations When Reauthorizing Head Start / Encourage Oil
Supply / The Lawsuit That Sank New Orleans / Outdated federal scoring
methodologies are hampering Congress from adopting pro-growth policies / Donald
Tusk, Poland's man of the moment / Many condemns Israel for building a security
fence, Madrid has done just that / Thailand's Intensifying Insurgency / China's
Competition Helps Textile Makers / The Great Chinese Bank Sale / Cornell
University Censorship / Education Reform Pays Off / Soak the Rich Colleges / A
climate alarmist takes on “criminals against humanity” / Childhood obesity /
Study Disproves Antibacterial Soap Scare / Presence of environmental chemicals
in human milk does not necessarily indicate health risks for infants /
Genetically Altered Plant Attracts Bug "Bodyguards"
Friday
Sep 23, 2005
The White House Is Right To Threaten a Veto on Drug
Importation / Deeply Flawed CRS Katrina Study Urges Return to 1960s Fiscal
Policy / The U.N. Summit Document: At What Cost? / Recycled "Racism"
/ Legal Merits Wins Out Over Environmental Absolutism / The New York Times
peddles more ‘driving while black’ malarkey / Article by President of Serbia on
Kosovo / Budapest, Warsaw and Prague in the euro zone / Indian Reform /
Colombia’s FARC / Ways of Propagandizing / / Earth Sense in the Balance /
Fighting malaria with DDT in South Africa / Top 10 Reasons Not To Put Cancer
Warnings on Fries and Chips / Genetically engineered animals help in scientific
research
Thursday
Sep 22, 2005
US Stance on North Korea Clear: No Compliance, No
Nuclear Energy / Iran: Nuclear Nightmare / Command and Control Healthcare /
Open ANWR Now to Oil Exploration / Germany needs a jolt / Democracy in Russia /
United States, Thailand Sign Open Skies Aviation Pact / House Defense Review
Should Include Coast Guard / The Economic and Budgetary Effects of the Katrina
Emergency Tax Relief Act of 2005 / Pelosi Leads the Way on Highway Bill
Give-Back / The Real ACORN: Anti-Employee, Anti-Union, Big-Business / Article
by Solana, Fischer, Douste-Blazy, and Straw on Iran’s Nukes / Germany / Orange
Revolution / Poverty, Welfare and New Orleans / Book Review of Ariel Levy's
"Female Chauvinist Pigs" / Unmanned Aircraft Provides Critical New
Hurricane Data / Consumer Drug Imports Would Weaken Safety System / Comments on
Heath et alii's Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces sequestration of root-derived
soil carbon, Science / High-Protein Corn
Wednesday
Sep 21, 2005
Trade and Development Agency Funds Projects in
Philippines, China / The Millennium Sham / Poverty and Governance / Liberal
constitutional theory returns to its foreign roots / Repealing Tax Cuts to Pay
For Katrina Recovery Would Cost Jobs / Don't bind New Orleans in red tape /
Comment on Webster et al. “Changes in Tropical Cyclone Number, Duration, and
Intensity in a Warming Environment” / Six Good Reasons to Reduce U.S. Farm
Subsidies and Trade Barriers / On Iraq, Short Memories / Myth, Fact, and the
al-Dura Affair / US Military Buys Non-Spliced Genes Tomatoes, Lettuce / Copper
Sulfate - A Persistent Metallic Pollutant
Does
U.S. Pledges Additional $1.2 Billion to Combat Malaria
in Africa / EU ECJ and judicial restraint / Central America's Progress in
Economic Development / China / The Racism Charges Won’t Wash / Roe v. Roberts /
Talabani: The Anti-Fascist / Articles by Kofi Annan and Prime Minister of
Australia / North Korea Abysmal Human Rights Record / Stalinism at CAIR: photo
doctored for Islamic correctness / Media cooked up a storm over Katrina / Blair
blasts BBC over US 'hatred' / Living with Global Warming / Senate Barely
Squelches Mercury Panic / Latest Fish-Mercury Scare Campaign / Federal Judge
Dismisses Greenhouse Gas Lawsuit
US Position on UN Security Council Reform / Book
Review: Robert D. Kaplan’s Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
/ Tal Afar Turning Point? / Revolutionary China, Complacent America / Germany's
voters have a tryst with fear on Sunday / Oil prices and the global economy /
The ECJ deals a blow to European democracy / Almost three-quarters of China's
Internet users are under 30 / The Indian government is soon to embark on
perhaps the grandest waste of taxpayers' money yet / Broadening Berlin's
foreign-policy views (By Wolfgang Schäuble) / Human Race Future / Interview
with Ray Kurzweil / Study: sprawl, waistlines not linked / Pharma and Loathing
in New York City / Scientists study how to clean salty water / US Scientists
Treat Cancer with Nanotechnology / The influence of the 11 yr solar cycle on
the interannual–centennial climate variability / Recent Trends in Northern
Canada River Discharge Rates / 6200 Years of ENSO Activity Derived from
Galápagos Data / 1300 years of Nile flow data and its discharge history / The
Photosynthetic Response of Managed Grasslands to Atmospheric CO 2 Enrichment /
Growth and N-Fixation Responses of Four Legumes to Atmospheric CO 2 and Soil
Nitrogen Additions
Iraq Good News Central / Australia's supply-side miracle
/ Reforming the Human Rights Agenda of the United Nations / The Visa Process /
Why Kofi Can't Fix the UN / Flight 93, re-hijacked / The Five Stages of
Crisis-Management / Iraqi dinar / Merkel's Slide / Clinton in China / The
Battle of Europe Revives U.K.-Polish Axis / Koizumi's Next Challenge / Fun for
Politicians, Legal Nightmare for Gasoline Retailers / Europe's Energy for
Mergers / George Galloway / No Change Forecast for U.S. Agricultural Exports
After Katrina / Morality: Tools in the Daily Battle / U.S. Researchers Make
Progress on Bird Flu Vaccine / Argentina gets serious about biotech / The
golden rice controversy: useless science or unfounded criticism?
Grant Supports Harmonization of U.S., Russian Railway
Standards / World Seen Winning Battle of Water Scarcity / NY Times Endorses
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The German Problem: Elections Won't Fix the Constitution's Defects /
Afghanistan Needs Durable Institutions / Subsidizing Disaster / Terror war all
but forgotten on home front / Europe Learns the Wrong Lessons / Trying the
terrorists / Padilla’s Case / Business Week Publishes Democratic Party Hit-Piece
As News, Forgets to Warn Readers / Japan / Merkel / U.N. aid programs / Book
Review: America’s Church-State Problem / The last thing Louisiana needs right
now is mosquitoes / Are Global Warming and Katrina Linked? / Cult of global
warming hit
Political looters expand use of evacuees to settle
scores / New Orleans: Green Activists’ Role / President’s Bold Action on
Davis-Bacon Will Aid the Relief Effort / A Study Guide for Understanding the
Public Policy Challenges of the War on Terrorism / Energy and Hurricane Katrina
/ A Weekly Standard 10th anniversary symposium / China's Peaceful Rise / Syria
/ Egypt / Koizumi / Article by Jose Manuel Durao Barroso / Putin / About
cultural significance of ‘peace’ / Book Review of Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed / Scientist finds unexpected link between
cat and human AIDS viruses / Global Warmers Recruit Insurance Industry / The Teflon
Scare / Synthetic Chemicals: Killing Us Softly? / Pesticides Trials on Humans /
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