Editorial on BCS playoff debate after LSU win
The piece argues the Bowl Championship Series failed to crown the best team, highlighting Southern Cal and Oklahoma as contenders and noting fan protests on the West Coast. It defends the BCS as an imperfect but preferable system to a playoff and acknowledges co-champions LSU and Southern Cal.
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Environment progress challenges doomsday forecasts in 2003
The piece argues that environmental predictions of doom were often wrong and highlights real gains such as air pollution reductions and growing wilderness. It notes slight ozone upticks due to chemistry, ongoing declines in emissions, and forecasts a long term population peak with reduced resource stress. It also covers data gaps, programs like Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and Global Change Research Program, and skepticism toward bureau proposals amid lobbying.
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Bush environmental record earns harsh verdict
The author attacks President Bush for rolling back clean air laws, weakening Superfund and wetlands protections, and expanding logging and mining. Greenpeace protests and legal actions are cited, including a probe into mahogany imports and a Tongass land exemption amid a Christmas period. The piece portrays a shift from national ideals to profit-driven policy.
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Remembering the Greatest Generation Hero Douglas Rene Becker
A letter honors the Greatest Generation and tells of Douglas Rene Becker born July 14 1921 in Queens New York City. Becker a WWII navigator with the Eighth Air Force earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal and later worked at the Savannah River Plant. His life exemplified service from youth to Arlington National Cemetery.
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