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Making London a Sustainable City: Is It Possible?
Can a city of seven million, with still largely Victorian infrastructure that is choked with very 20th-century traffic, become green?
Read More »Disabled: The Invisible Minority
Of course I notice they don't have handicap elevators or ramps leading up to bell towers…
Read More »The World of Haves and Have-Nots
If you've got it, wear it, steal it, spy on it, and scan it. But don't expect to heat it.
Read More »Abortion: Finding the Moral Balance
The Supreme Court is about to become imbalanced in a way that will most likely favor the government’s increasing interference with our personal lives. I could of course be wrong, but I sincerely doubt it. It’s not that I don’t think Samuel Alito isn’t a qualified candidate – I do. …
Read More »Canadian Election 2006: Final Thoughts
This election did not give the Conservatives a mandate to remake the country in their own image. But it has given the country the opportunity to take a long hard look at the party and what it has to offer.
Read More »Torture, Soldiers, And The Geneva Convention
The American people need to realize that if they accept their governments use of torture on captured military, that they are condemning their own soldiers to the same treatment.
Read More »Movie Review: Why We Fight
A balanced, thought-provoking documentary that encourages serious debate about how the United States of America has become such a military force in the world.
Read More »Surprising Sanity about Sex in Britain
"The number of people having sex before 16 years old has fallen from 32 per cent in 2002 to 20 per cent now."
Read More »Your Great-Grandchildren Will Still Be Suffering from Today’s Carbon Emissions
The target of a 60 per cent cut in emissions, to produce "only" a two-degree rise in temperature, assumes a steady reduction.
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