The headline on Nathaniel Rich's essay "Writing the End" (April 21) asks, "Should novelists try harder to confront long-term environmental crises?" As the author of 12 novels since 1961 and another in progress, I answer no.
The idea is brilliant in its simplicity: to force politicians to confront long-term issues facing their nation rather than focusing on short-term problems, driven by electoral calculations.
A joint National Security Strategy Board will be established to ensure that senior officials on both sides of the Atlantic confront long-term challenges rather than just hold emergency talks from the "situation room" in the White House and the Cobra room in the Cabinet Office.
[C1.] MODERNIZING THE SKIES The Federal Aviation Administration is confronting long-term issues that hang over the agency.
WASHINGTON — With its more rigorous oversight of airplane maintenance having led to the recent grounding of thousands of flights, the Federal Aviation Administration is confronting long-term questions about whether it should act more like a tough regulator, rather than a partner, of the airlines.
She never imagined she'd be confronting long-term joblessness.
McLaughlin contacted HuffPost in response to a March story that featured an Atlanta woman also confronting long-term joblessness.
Since no evidence was found on behalf of breast-cancer survivors (specific population in which the researchers at first took interest), it was decided to enlarge the focus on RTW and OT for all patients confronted with long term effects of diagnose/treatment, including problems on RTW.
It could be because warming experiments are conducted on a small scale and for short periods of time and thus may not reflect the complete set of conditions plants confront over the long term, such as increases in carbon dioxide.
Like Mr. Bush, they, too, need to confront these long-term questions.
