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Thomas Jefferson once offered a good piece of advice: When angry, count to ten before you speak--and when very angry, count to a hundred.
The debate over the Central American Free Trade Agreement is officially underway next week, with the Senate Finance Committee holding hearings on the Bush administration’s most important free-trade initiative yet. Nobody knows for certain how long the deliberations will go on. Congress may vote as early as next month, or hold off until the summer. Whatever the case, we can be sure that CAFTA will be one of the year’s major political struggles.
The classic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft--think of him as a 1930s version of Stephen King--once wrote: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
Norman Borlaug deserves about a billion birthday cards every year. That’s because something like a billion people--and maybe more--owe their lives to this extraordinary man’s efforts to eradicate hunger by improving agriculture.
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