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Fri, September 22, 2023 | 03:52

Like water for climate

Like water for climate

MALMO ― “Everyone knows” that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. After all, this is the advice of a multitude of health writers, not to mention authorities like Britain’s National Health Service. Healthy living now means carrying water bottles with us, sipping at all times, trying to drink our daily quota to ensure that we stay hydrated and healthy.

2012-08-20 17:01

California legislature poor at handling scandals

Given its record on other issues, such as the deficit-ridden budget, it's not surprising that the California legislature doesn't handle scandal very well.

2012-08-19 16:52

Astronomers find most massive star generator yet

Maybe we're overstating it, but it seems that the more we learn about the universe ― and we are learning a lot ― it seems the less we know.

2012-08-19 16:50

Saving Medicare the Ryan way

The Democrats want to scare the elderly to death about Paul Ryan's Medicare proposals even though they won't affect anyone over 54, and here's what they're not telling anyone. Their own legislative mishaps include billions in cuts that start eating away at Medicare right around the corner and won't address the debt threat because of the coming costs of Obamacare.

2012-08-19 16:48

Africa’s last famine

WASHINGTON ― Last year, the international community recognized one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of recent times unfolding in the Horn of Africa, and moved in to ameliorate the widespread famine there. Now, poor rains, crop shortages, and continuing conflict could cause millions to be plunged back into life-threatening levels of hunger and malnutrition.

2012-08-19 16:46

Massachusetts health bill too hopeful

BOSTON ― Massachusetts lawmakers boast that their newly enacted health-care-cost control plan will be a national model. But it is based more on hope than practicality.

2012-08-17 17:08

Yellowstone inspires wonder and renewal

GARDINER, Mont. ― Most people have at least one place that allows them to feel their very best, a place that awakens their senses and connects them to whatever they accept as being divine or spiritual.

2012-08-17 17:07

Obama Doctrine’s first term

Obama Doctrine’s first term

ASPEN ― Public-opinion polls in the United States indicate a close presidential election in November. While President Barack Obama outpolls the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, on foreign policy, slow economic growth and high unemployment ― issues that are far more salient in U.S. elections ― favor Romney. And, even on foreign policy, Obama’s critics complain that he has f...

2012-08-17 17:03

Giving young illegal immigrants a break

Based on early returns, the Obama administration's plan to grant residency and work permits to illegal immigrants brought here as youngsters is a success.

2012-08-16 16:45

Romney-Ryan seem right as extreme team

Mitt Romney, the Republican chameleon soon to be nominated as his party's candidate for president, has taken another fateful step in camouflaging his formerly moderate image.

2012-08-16 16:43

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