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| Editorial Board: Holding back the sea Dec 1st 2012, 23:12 ON MONDAY, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said that the response to Hurricane Sandy will cost $42 billion. On Wednesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) claimed that his state needs nearly as much. On the same day, a group of climate researchers released calculations that indicate the world's oceans are rising 60 percent faster than the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change anticipated five years ago. Projecting how Greenland's ice will behave in a warming world or what will happen to the polar ice caps decades from now is difficult. But sea levels appear to be on track to rise by several feet over the next century, with every inch putting more Americans at risk. Sea-level researchers Robert Kopp and Benjamin Strauss estimate that a five-foot rise would produce Sandy-like floods in New York every 15 years, on average. Read full article >>   |  | Editorial Board: A U.S. future in Afghanistan? Dec 1st 2012, 23:10 TALKS BETWEEN the Obama administration and the Afghan government over a U.S. military presence after 2014 have gotten off to a poor start. In Washington, officials have been briefing journalists about minimalist options for counterterrorism forces and trainers after the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops is completed. The figure of 10,000 troops recently reported by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times is about one-third the number that defense analysts Kimberly and Frederick Kagan, who have advised U.S. commanders in Afghanistan for years, said would be necessary for a stay-on force in a recent Post op-ed. Read full article >>   | | Editorial Board: Architect of folly Dec 1st 2012, 23:08 THE SLOW CREEP of overwrought security has left its mark on Washington. Look at the landscape blighted with barriers and bollards, the historic views lost, the streets mindlessly closed off. Now see the latest victim of officialdom's obsession with security — model boats — and decide if you want to laugh or cry. Read full article >>   | | Why the chained CPI isn't enough Dec 1st 2012, 22:44 The Nov. 26 editorial on the consumer price index argued that the chained CPI is "a better measure of inflation." However, a true measure of the inflation afflicting beneficiaries of Social Security and other federal retirement programs would take into account the rising health-care costs experienced by seniors. Measures that do this, notably the CPI-E, which monitors average consumer prices for Americans 62 years of age or older, would result in greater cost-of-living adjustments. This is a clear sign that moving to the chained CPI is going in the wrong direction. Read full article >> | | Dec 1st 2012, 22:40 Cohen, Richard Cohen, writes that today's muscle-bound James Bond does not have the panache of yesteryears' actors. The argument is that the blame falls upon too many hours in the gym versus spending time reading books and engaging in thoughtful conversation. In sum, the emphasis on the gym results in bad role models for our youth. Instead, Sean Connery is held out as the ideal, sophisticated Bond. One problem: Sean Connery was a Mr. Universe contestant who used bodybuilding as his steppingstone to fame. Read full article >> | | Three cheers for well-toned men Dec 1st 2012, 22:40 Oh, please! For Richard Cohen to whine about the objectification of male bodies in movies is silly ["When muscle mattered less," op-ed, Nov. 27]. Why shouldn't James Bond be as visually pleasing to women as his "girls" are to men. Why wasn't Grace Kelly's role in "High Noon" given to a realistic woman in her 40's? There were plenty of fabulous character actresses of the time who would have been great in the role. The romance would have been plausible. Read full article >> | | Dec 1st 2012, 22:40 I'm a sophomore at Georgetown University, majoring in Classics & Economics. I also compete in Olympic weightlifting. When Mr. Cohen asserts that "every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen or a conversation not held," he introduces a false binary between brain and brawn. Sophistication and physical development are not mutually exclusive. Mr. Cohen incorrectly assumes that if only today's youth weren't busy lifting weights, we would be reading more Shakespeare or debating the merits of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics into the wee hours. In reality, however, we would probably be watching "Jersey Shore" and cracking open another bag of Cheetos, simultaneously plunging both our brains and muscles into atrophy. Read full article >> | | Dec 1st 2012, 22:40 To: Special Agent Richard Cohen: Your latest case, No. 0073586, "Investigation into the new requirement that middle-aged movie heroes must be extremely fit to be romantically involved with hot young women who look young enough to be their daughters" has been solved! Undercover agents stationed in Hollywood have discovered legions of middle-aged male screenwriters successfully pairing flabby, aging actors like Michael Caine, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney and Dan Ackroyd with fit young women. MI5 has concluded that the fantasy lives of older men are NOT, we repeat, NOT, in danger. Read full article >> | |
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