When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away. This was the height of the cold war, and as...
I am reading with increasing dismay about the steady march of Ethanol into the North American psyche as an alternative to buying fuel in the form of light, sweet crude oil from those mean, nasty Arabs. On the surface the idea behind biodiesel and ethanol is appealing...
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1261487,00.asp September 10, 2003 A Letter to President Bush By Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Dear President Bush: You probably don’t know Joel Phagoo. He is a 21-year-old college student who decided to go fishing in New...
*http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/60minutes/main551091.shtml Halliburton: All In The Family* April 27, 2003 After dropping more than 28,000 bombs on Iraq, the United States has now begun the business of rebuilding the country. And it promises to be quite a...