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Monday, February, 5 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Warming up to
climate change |
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The report
released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
last week confirms what hardcore environmentalists have long been
warning us about: Human activity, not natural causes, is the biggest
culprit in global warming. The report should put to rest whatever
notions remain that we are not responsible for the alarming changes
that are damaging our climate system.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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When nations stop
breeding
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HERBERT MEYER
was the first senior official of the US government to predict the
disintegration of the Soviet Union. For this feat he was awarded the
US National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal...
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Unity, like
politics, last refuge of the scoundrel
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WITH all the
intensity (and finesse) of a North African kasbah, the wheeling and
dealing that is the usual distasteful prelude to the election season
has already begun. And this early heroically weary Filipinos...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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House passes vital
political reform bill
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The House
approved Wednesday night the proposed Political Party Act of 2006.
I rate its significance as comparable to that of the Juvenile
Justice System and the Reformed Value-Added Tax laws...
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DOUBLETAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Zawahiri’s
exclusion theology
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AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI,
Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant and war strategist, recently
denounced Dubya Bush as a liar and an “executioner, responsible
for the spilling of Muslim blood” and begged Muslims...
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Global warming
very likely caused by man
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Global warming
has begun and will only get worse, not better. It was “very
likely” caused by man and not by forces of nature. Temperatures
will rise by 3.5 to 7.1 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 95 years.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The importance of
grammar-perfect English—VI
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We will take
up today a very instructive question raised by a professor in
Ontario, Canada, about the opening sentence of my column that came
out last New Year’s Day. The sentence in question...
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Tougher
US line could hand Venezuela’s Chavez ‘red meat’—experts
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WASHINGTON:
High-ranking US officials and lawmakers are pressuring the State
Department to take a more punishing tone with Venezuela, at the risk
of tossing “red meat” to President Hugo Chavez...
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