Noted & quoted.'Someday we won't have any snow. We won't be Eskimos.' --A hunter in Nain, an Inuit community in northeast Canada. Inuit reports of warmer winters and shrinking ice floes in the Arctic are attracting the attention of scientists studying global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. . (The Washington Post, March 22) 'All I asked for is what happened to my son, and it has been lie after lie after lie.' --The father of Pat Tillman Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 – April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. He was killed in action in Afghanistan. , ex-NFL player killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2004. Army explanations of his death have not satisfied his family, and now a criminal investigation is under way. (The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, March 21) 'It is not a solution. But Iraqis can be attacked by anyone, just walking on the street: Americans, insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. , and the Iraqi Army.' --Muhammad Said, 23, on his purchase of a terrorism insurance policy, so far available only in Iraq. (The New York Times, March 21) |
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