In The Right Nation: Conservative Power In America Adrian Woolridge and John Mickelwaite argue — among other things — that the conservative movement does a much better job of publicizing it’s ideas than the left does. Therefore, I urge the reader to click on this link and read a New Yorker article (”The Moral Hazard Myth”) on the uninsured in the U. S.

He metions Tim Willard’s entry about a D.C. event.

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Back in the 1940s, when Robert Tamblyn was working at Toronto’s Eaton Centre department store, he noticed that it had tapped the city’s water main — illegally — to rig up a system that fanned the chilly water through a network of pipes to cool the women’s evening-wear department.

It was years before the city’s water commissioner wised up. And years more before Tamblyn had the idea of applying the same concept in a bigger way.

“Air conditioning was a whole new word up here in the 1940s,” says Tamblyn, the engineer many credit with developing an alternative technology — lake-source cooling — in North America.

He has helped devise large-scale, energy-efficient cooling systems for the city of Toronto and Cornell University’s Ithaca campus. The city system, the largest of its kind, began operating last summer.

The first successful citywide venture was set up in Stockholm in 1995, but its capacity is less than half of Toronto’s.

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Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, commander of the Army Corps, told Bunnatine H. Greenhouse last month that she was being removed from the senior executive service, the top rank of civilian government employees, because of poor performance reviews. Greenhouse’s attorney, Michael D. Kohn, appealed the decision Friday in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, saying it broke an earlier commitment to suspend the demotion until a “sufficient record” was available to address her allegations.

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Since January, governors have signed several dozen antiabortion measures ranging from parental consent requirements to an outright ban looming in South Dakota. Not since 1999, when a wave of laws banning late-term abortions swept the legislatures, have states imposed so many and so varied a menu of regulations on reproductive health care.

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