Opinion
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President Clinton declares three new monuments
Opinion -In what western lawmakers called “a war on the West,” the Clinton-Gore Administration bypassed Congress and unilaterally declared three new national monuments and added acreage to a fourth, restricting public use on over a million acres of -
Virtual climate alert
Opinion -The United Nations and the Clinton-Gore administration seek to regulate all human activity under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. -
Millennium Survey judges public opinion on environment
Opinion -Americans are more or less satisfied with the state of the environment in the United States today, with 62 percent saying it is very or mainly satisfactory. -
The Rains of Ranchipur
Opinion -Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. —Hamlin Garland, “Do You Fear the Wind?” Changes in temperature and precipitation are linked in the climate system. -
The Great Windmill Scam
Opinion -Not all Scandinavians are enamored with wind energy. -
Smog-Eating Car Introduced
Opinion -According to Swedish car maker Volvo, car owners may soon be able to reduce smog by driving. -
Coalition challenges proposed vehicle scrappage program
Opinion -The Coalition for Auto Repair Equality (CARE), representing companies in the automotive parts, repair, and maintenance industries, has challenged as “unproven” a car/truck scrappage program proposed by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation -
Math Lite Feels Better
Opinion -A recent Wall Street Journal editorial noted that the Everyday Math program not only promotes the use of calculators from kindergarten on but also brings a new set of feelings to math classes. -
Why NASA Lost the Mars Probe?
Opinion -“What will be the effect on all of us when we must deal with the consequences of physicians, airplane designers, or architects who were indoctrinated in school with hostility to mathematical precision?” This question was raised recently by U.S. -
Time for Whole Language to Surrender?
Opinion -"Whereas speaking is natural, reading is not. Children do not automatically read. They have to learn how to do it. . . . There really is a difference in brain activation patterns between good and poor readers. -
Fast-forward ebb and flow
Opinion -The common description of global sea-level changes is a simple one. When most of the planet is cold (during an ice age, for example), a lot of water is locked up in the form of ice, and the regions of permanent ice expand. -
Congressmen appeal to Supreme Court on AHRI
Opinion -Four western Congressmen have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether members of Congress can sue the Clinton-Gore Administration for violating the Constitution. The petition to review was filed on December 2. -
‘Yes, we have CO2 bananas!’
Opinion -Springtime signals the start of the cycle of life, with the promise of the fruits of our labors in the offing. Let’s take a moment to consider the healthful culinary splendor an enhanced carbon dioxide (CO2) world promises us. -
Computer models, the Kyoto Protocol, and reality
Opinion -Of all the environmental issues we have ever confronted, only one—global warming—is driven solely by the imagination of a computer. -
The incalculable cost of Superfund
Opinion -In December 1999, the nation "celebrated" the nineteenth birthday of one of the most ill-conceived environmental laws on the books--Superfund. -
Cheating to the Test
Opinion -Last June, New York City's Special Commissioner of Investigations, Edward F. Stancik, issued a report titled "How to Succeed Without Really Trying. -
Real Math: Sexist, Racist, or Just Hard?
Opinion -A group of 200 prominent mathematicians and scientists has called on U.S. Education Secretary Richard W. -
Hard Green Is Hard to Swallow
Opinion -Five years ago, a senior executive of a major trade association in Washington D.C. -
Genetically Modified Medicine
Opinion -Though controversy surrounds the use of genetically modified seeds for growing such food staples as corn and soybeans, GM techniques are standard practice in medicine--and have been for decades. -
03/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Georgia * Illinois * Michigan * New York North Carolina * Ohio * Pennsylvania * Texas * Wisconsin GEORGIA GOP Senators Announce Voucher Plan Although the education reform bill Georgia Governor Roy Barnes introduced on January 13 included -
Anti-logging activists gear up
Opinion -The U.S. Forest Service is required to provide a comment period for citizens to respond to its Notice of Intent to prevent use of 40 million acres of roadless areas in National Forests. -
Boom Continues in New Charter Schools
Opinion -A record number of new charter schools--more than 550--opened across the nation at the start of the 1999-2000 school year, bringing the total to 1,682, all created since 1991. -
Burning Boise
Opinion -Radical anti-civilization environmentalists at the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) have claimed credit for setting a fire that destroyed the regional headquarters of Boise Cascade timber company in Monmouth, Oregon on Christmas morning, 1999. -
CDC report warns of sludge danger
Opinion -Scientists and medical researchers are raising concerns that municipal sludge spread on farm fields across the U.S. may be responsible for illnesses and even deaths.
