As the nation learned so painfully on Sept. 11, nothing is more important to security than good intelligence.

The nation learned in the past that it cannot afford the luxury of guns and butter.

IN the real world, as this recently fat and happy nation has learned once again, the economy can change with distressing speed.

All nations will come there and learn about peace.

But as the nation long ago learned, Bill Clinton is no ordinary man.

History reveals the lessons we as a nation must learn.

By influencing one another, nations learn to get along.

Anthrax doesn't necessarily kill, either, as the nation learned in 2001.

His worst fear is that other nations will learn of the discovery.

To do that, he says, the nation should learn from successful examples of cooperation between governments and the private sector, like those in Japan.