Opinion
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Tired of an Impoverished Flush? Go North!
Opinion -One of the hottest imports from Canada these days is the old-fashioned 3.5 gallon capacity toilet. The toilets were outlawed for sale in the U.S. in 1994, when federal water conservation law set the new standard at 1.6 gallons a flush. -
China Trade: Boon for the Environment
Opinion -President Clinton granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to the People’s Republic of China on October 10, less than one month after the Senate voted 83-15 to approve the measure. The House had passed the bill, H.R. -
We Can Prevent Cancer: ‘If We Behave Ourselves’
Opinion -Two years ago, on December 12, 1998, Bruce N. Ames received the National Medal of Science— the nation's highest scientific honor—for his major contributions to the understanding of cancer and aging. -
Boston Harbor cleanup: A world-class environmental feat
Opinion -Fourteen years ago, Bostonians scoffed when the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) promised to clean up Boston Harbor by the end of the millennium. -
A bullet through the heart of the global warming scare
Opinion -Who says you can’t “prove a negative”? -
President sued over climate change report
Opinion -The Competitive Enterprise Institute announced on October 5 that it has filed suit against President William J. Clinton and Neal Lane, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. -
Judicial Taxation Violates Separation of Powers
Opinion -The legislature makes the laws. The executive enforces the laws. The judiciary rules on the laws. -
The Incredible Disappearing School Choice ‘Scandal’
Opinion -Editor's Note: Marquette University professor Howard Fuller frequently has noted that voucher opponents have a three-phase strategy for defeating school choice in any state. -
Takeover Plan for St. Louis Schools?
Opinion -Although they say they want to avoid it, the Missouri School Board is developing contingency plans for taking control of the school districts in Kansas City and St. Louis, according to a September 22 report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. -
HUD E-MAPS generate praise, criticism
Opinion -Saying “informed decisions are the best decisions,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled a new application on the agency’s Web site that will help people learn about environment matters that affect -
Leaked IPCC report triggers false alarm
Opinion -Every five years, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives its assessment of the state of global warming science. -
CARA battle is won . . . for now
Opinion -Property rights advocates cautiously declared victory in early October over the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA), which would have established a 15-year, $45 billion trust to fund government efforts to acquire private land. -
Detroit weather record could support warming
Opinion -Do fossil fuels create greenhouse gases that warm the atmosphere and cause weather extremes and severe storms? Let's look at the record for Detroit, Michigan, and see if the evidence supports this theory. ’16. Ice formed every month of the year. -
Scientists unable to predict consequences of El Niño
Opinion -Wouldn’t it be helpful if we knew when another big El Niño was about to hit, so we could board up the windows, bring in the cat, and cancel our cable television contract? -
Sleepless in Seattle
Opinion -They’re sleepless in Seattle these days . . . and I’m not talking about the movie. I’m describing nights experienced by “telecom hotel” developers. -
Best and Brightest Pull Higher Grades for Lower SATs
Opinion -Though not emphasized by the College Board as much as the "30-year high" in math scores, other data in the latest SAT test score release raise concerns about the state of American education. -
Could School Choice Save St. Louis?
Opinion -In a series of attempts to stem a dramatic population loss and revitalize a shrinking tax base, St. -
California: Setting the Standard for Science Teaching: interview with Michael A. Rios
Opinion -"Science is an organized body of knowledge and a method of proceeding to an extension of this knowledge by hypothesis and experiment.” Nobel laureate Glenn T. -
Parents Want Standards and Student Testing
Opinion -Despite well-publicized protests by teachers and students against the imposition of academic standards and standardized tests, a new survey finds the vast majority of parents--the paying customers for educational services--support the way higher -
What Doesn’t Work
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Education was identified nearly a decade ago, in 1993, as a troubled agency in need of significant reform. -
Precautionary Foolishness
Opinion -In candid moments, partisans of the Kyoto global warming protocol will admit that the theory of catastrophic warming has not been validated by experimental or empirical evidence. -
Ozone hole: Much ado about nada
Opinion -For years, the ozone depletion-impact crowd was worrying about the effects surface ultraviolet radiation would have on the Antarctic ecosystem—though, as we’ve said before, the Antarctica ecosystem, except for a few penguins, consists entirely of -
Global warming would not increase malaria, study finds
Opinion -Global warming alarmists frequently cite future increases in malaria deaths as one of the main reasons we need to stop burning fossil fuels. -
Recentered SAT Yields Apples and Oranges
Opinion -When the College Board artificially "recentered" SAT scores to 500 apiece for the verbal and math sections in 1995, it created a world of doubt about the reliability of its long-term data.
