I'm starting the new year with the sinking feeling that important opportunities are slipping from the nation's grasp. Our collective consciousness tends to obsess indiscriminately over one or two issues -- the would-be bomber on the flight into Detroit, the Tiger Woods saga -- while enormous problems that should be engaged get short shrift.Try telling this to the people on that plane.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/01/easy-for-you-to-say/33084/
