Hillary Clinton held hearings on health care proposals in 1993 for the stated purpose of giving the impression of listening to people's views.

On the other hand, the goal she was working for — single-payer health care — was better than what Obama managed to enact.

Australia has invited Syrian refugees to go back to Syria to avoid the oppressive conditions of their imprisonment in Manus Island.

One of them thought that being shot to death in Syria might be preferable.

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The fire at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was preventable.

Most nuclear accidents and chemical plant accidents are preventable. If the owner fixed every irregularity immediately, and kept the plant shut down whenever its equipment was not entirely working normally, that would prevent most accidents.

They don't do that because that would be expensive; therefore, the owner cuts corners. Nearly always, no accident results. But some accidents are so bad that even once in a rare while is too much. To avoid those accidents, one must not cut corners.

Killing dingoes (wild dogs) in Australia put small mammals in danger.