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FCC Is Ignoring Impact of Wireless, Other Rivals for Telephone Service
In the absence of competition, regulations serve to protect consumers against monopoly market power. This is, in theory, the reason why the telecommunications local exchange…
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The Danger of Too Much Caution
Congress has a long and ignoble history of exaggerated legislative responses to perceived health crises. They seem to be at it again.<?xml:namespace prefix…
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Inuit All Along
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — On Monday representatives from Iceland held a prime-time event announcing a study…
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Who’s The Greatest?
BUENOS AIRES — British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Science Advisor Sir David King regularly calls climate change “the greatest threat facing mankind” and…
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Reid May Lead on Stock Options
In the discussion of winners and losers from Election 2004, one organization that may have suffered a big blow has been overlooked. This…
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Premature Congratulation
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Buenos Aires — “Post-2012”! is the mantra of thousands of bureaucrats and pressure group advocates meeting…
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Coal Is The New Gold
A report in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United States has found that coal is becoming ever more important as…
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A Chilling Tale
We know that nature can kill. What most people don't know is that stupid ideas about nature can kill, too.<?xml:namespace prefix = o…
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How lawsuits can kill
This year's flu-vaccine shortfall is just one of many dangerous shortages of essential vaccines—and it need not have happened. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
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Bigger, “Renewable” Boondoggle
In Washington, sometimes all you need to do to find out lobbyists’ latest schemes to bilk the unwary taxpayer is attend a public meeting. What…
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It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid: Amtrak, derailed
The news that the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General is deeply concerned about the dangerous state of Amtrak’s railroad infrastructure should come as…
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Environmentalists Becoming Less and Less Relevant
Environmental activists wanted two things to happen on Election Day—they wanted President Bush to lose and their cause to be a big reason…
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The Supermarket’s Unnatural Selections
Agricultural practices have been “unnatural” for 10,000 years. With the exception of wild berries and wild mushrooms, virtually all the grains, fruits and…
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Citizen Snoops Forever: The intelligence reform bill will turn car dealers into spooks, permanently
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Big Losers: Unions’ 2004 Electioneering Stuck in Florida 2000
Had Sen. John Kerry won the White House, the AFL-CIO and other union backers were poised to claim credit, regain control over the Labor Department…
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Will Reid Lead On Stock Option?
In the discussion of winner sand losers from Election 2004, one organization that may have suffered a big blow has been…
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Abusive Behavior
Recent months have seen some regrettable lapses by prestigious scientific journals. Some highly questionable claims have been made, but have been published anyway.
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The Fight for Telecom Reform
The good news is all the combatants realize it’s a war that needs to be fought. There’s good news and bad news in the wonky…
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Square Off: Is Cyberterrorism Being Thwarted?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> YES: Businesses have re-examined continuity plans, and governments have addressed physical and Web…
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The Fight For Telecom Reform
Full document available in pdf format<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> There’s good news and bad news in the wonky…
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Margaret Thatcher: A Free Market Environmentalist
Full document available in pdf format <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Tracy Mehan’s account of Margaret…
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The Curse of Too Much Caution
The FDA is the nation's most ubiquitous regulatory agency. It oversees products that account for 25 cents of every consumer dollar, with a…
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Making the Desert Bloom
There is big news from the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Middle East that is unusual in several ways: It's positive,…
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What’s Wrong With Combat Pay?
American soldiers are risking their lives in Fallujah. No one would say that they don't deserve a special bonus for wearing <?xml:namespace prefix…
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Air Board’s Greenhouse Rule: Raw Deal for Dealers
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> On September 24, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />California’s Air…
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Telecom Reform, Consensus Needed
In the Washington, D.C. policy world, regulatory change requires consensus building. With rapid market changes since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress and the Federal Communications Commission are…
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Cooling Blair’s Climate Crusade
Tony Blair is, in a way, as polarizing a figure in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United Kingdom as President…
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Energy Policy or Anti-Energy Policy?
There was a lot a campaign talk about our nation's energy policy, and Bush and Kerry offered their own competing energy plans. With…
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Stock Option Expense Jousting
After hearing constant tirades about <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. foreign policy offending “the world,” a majority of American voters…
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Russia Takes “Final” Step, Again, But Not Really
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> For the third time in a month and fifth time in just…
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Science Loses Some Friends
The scientific world lost three important figures in recent weeks, as Francis Crick, Thomas Gold and Philip Abelson have all passed away. In…
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Ford Motor Plans for Energy-Poor Future
According to The New York Times (Oct. 4), “Ford's goal, according to its own internal projections, would require an improvement of about 80…
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The One Percent Solution
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Many of the scientific papers that have contributed to global warming alarmism over…
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Demonize – Then Pulverize
Ten years ago last May, a new type of lawsuit was filed against the tobacco industry. That industry was no stranger to lawsuits; since the…
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No to Kyoto Treaty
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />USA TODAY's editorial fails to make an economic case for U.S. ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (“Global…
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Too Smart For Our Own Good
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A Green Light for More Broadband
The Federal Communications Commission—the traffic cop of the communications industry—just raised the speed limits on broadband. Its ruling on Thursday protects many of…
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Missing in Action
In a <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />US election campaign that has seen the presidential candidates attack each other with great…
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EU Adopts ‘Imperial Preference’
Commissioner Pascal Lamy’s announcement on 20 October that lesser developed countries that implement the European agenda of the Kyoto protocol and other international treaties on…
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Ebell Responds to Editorial “The Choice on the Environment”
Thursday, October 21, 2004; Page A28 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Sept. 27 editorial “The Choice on the Environment”…
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Flights of Fancy
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The current British hysteria over global warming, which has seen party leaders…
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Health, Wealth and Happiness
How do we know when we’re happy? Strange as it may seem, this philosophical question could come back to haunt you one April 15. Psychologists…
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Hockey Stick Reduced to Sawdust
Von Storch et al (ScienceExpress, Sept. 30) first looked at the likelihood of being able to get an accurate climate signal from historical…
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Vaccine Development Needs a Booster Shot
Every year in this country influenza kills tens of thousands and hospitalizes about a quarter-million. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Tyndall Center Proposes Energy Rationing
Dr Kevin Anderson and Richard Starkey are developing a system called Domestic Tradable Quotas (DTQs). Under this system, every <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…
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The Toxic Politics of Biotech
How far does grass pollen travel? Ask someone who has hay fever, and the response is likely to be “much too far.” But…
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Medicine Could Reach For Stars, FDA Willing
When Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975, they shot for the stars and succeeded. More recently, Allen shot for the stars again.
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Carbon dioxide is your friend
Jeffrey Sparshott’s otherwise excellent article “Putin Cabinet approves signing of Kyoto protocol” (Business, Friday) unwittingly promotes the alarmist view that carbon dioxide emissions…
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More Crop for the Drop
Your morning espresso at Starbucks will soon be more expensive. Unless, that is, they find a way to make it without water or coffee, both…
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Greenpeace Seeks Greener Pastures
Recent reportage in one of Europe’s greenest publications, “The Ecologist”, cites internal admissions by the pressure group Greenpeace that it needs a face-saving exit strategy…