<blockquote> Andrei, the NAS is *not* extremist.
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I am not saying it is. 'Extremist' referred more to the gloom/doom scenarios, sort of like what (ehm, here goes a non-Republican) Al Gore would portray.
I can't call myself a big expert on much of what was so vigorously disscussed in this thread, I just tend to be relatively more agnostic...