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1. CO NT INU ED ASS AU LT ON CIV IL LIB ER TIE S embered President George W. Bush is rem l libercivi ing curb in largely for his role or. But terr on war his of e nam ties in the signed who ma it’s President Barack Oba zation hori Aut ense Def l the 2012 Nationa for g win allo se clau its g udin incl Act, for terindefinite detention without trial that ised prom ma Oba . ects rorism susp t them to rpre inte will on trati inis Adm “my ”—leaving avoid the constitutional conflict inistraadm t nex the n whe and if us adrift rwise. othe them tion chooses to interpret l iona Nat the is cern con Another law of execuness ared Prep es ourc Res ense Def March tive order that Obama issued in ident, pres the es oriz auth r orde 2012. That the to at thre “in the event of a potential take to es, Stat ted security of the Uni availabilactions necessary to ensure the uction prod and s ity of adequate resource cal criti and ices serv g udin capability, incl e requirefens l-de ona nati for gy, nolo tech advised on ments.” The president is to be ional Nat “the by on acti of this course Security d elan Security Council and Hom National the with tion Council, in conjunc .” ncil Cou ic Econom
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2. OC EAN S IN PE RIL banks Our country has deemed its big won’t be ans oce “too big to fail.” But our their and n, soo time any out getting a bail lf. itse collapse could compromise life by In a haunting article highlighted rter repo es Jon ther Mo d, sore Project Cen e— cap seas ous Julia Whitty paints a tenu and g— min war , ified overfished, acid of the describes how the destruction ardizes jeop ems ocean’s complex ecosyst ent perc 70 the just not et, the entire plan ocean acids pare com itty Wh er. wat is that nge to ification caused by climate cha causes of the of one was that tion acidifica 252 on ncti the Great Dying, a mass exti 30 took th Ear on Life . million years ago ver. reco to rs yea million
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