Call of Duty is a fantastic version of our own world, one where blowing up the Eiffel tower is not only awesome but right and necessary.
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It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
It's a world much like our own full of greed, uncertainty, tension, dishonesty, hubris and quiet moments of doubt but The Arcade Fire still restlessly seeks deliverance.
As we work to reduce nuclear weaponry and to realize the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, we recognize the necessity to maintain the safety, security and reliability of our own weapons.
No, it's a matter of not knowing our own place in the world, where to intervene, how much and what for.
This tendency to portray the United States as wearing the cape or the white hat in a world full of trade scofflaws infantilizes readers, making it harder to dismantle our own barriers.
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Psychological research affirms that we are all partial prisoners of our own preferences and have a hard time seeing the world from a different perspective.
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True, we have a lot more choices (often aided by technology) about precisely how we do these things in the modern world but we are still built by a hundred thousand years or so of our own species, tens of millions of years of mammalian evolution, into ending up with slightly different brains and slightly different interests to go along with our very different gonads.
There would be a vast increase in the price of oil with catastrophic consequences for every economy in the world, very much including our own.
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But divided, for whatever reasons, including seemingly harmless motivations, we as a nation will not only fail our own expectations, but may inflict great havoc to the rest of the world.
With substantial progress already having been made and continuing in these areas, and with further delays having large environmental and economic costs of their own, the fracking controversy has become a very expensive distraction for our nation and the world.
First, hydrocarbons supply 85 percent of what America and the rest of the world consumes, a share that will change little for decades to come based on every credible forecast including our own Department of Energy.
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