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Second Opinion

ON the whole, I am not impressed by the power of compensation to compensate. Even where deserved in the strictly legal sense, it is either insufficient or totally irrelevant......

A Reasonable Sense Of Doom

Millenarianism is compatible with a logical reading of the evidence, says Felipe Fernandez-Annesto THE end of the world — even if it happens sooner than most of us think — is......