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...levy would be far less punitive than a carbon tax. "The BTU tax doesn't cause ^ any big shift in fuel choices," says an official of the United Mine Workers union. "We prefer it to the carbon tax, which could destroy our industry." But the levy would still run afoul of powerful interests that reject the very idea of new energy taxes. Says Charles DiBona, president of the American Petroleum Institute: "The deficit is a national problem and requires a national solution, not a tax on a single critical segment of the economy...
EVEN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, has its limits. The quiet insistence of Andrew Martinez, a.k.a. the Naked Guy, on attending classes and strolling on campus in the nude finally ran afoul of both Berkeley's rules and politically correct culture...
...year in Geneva working for the United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz club on a "black night" and was packed off to England by the South African police...
...target smoking colleagues, relatives and restaurant patrons. It spent two years reviewing an expert panel's findings and finally concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke exacerbates bronchitis, pneumonia and other ailments in children and kills 3,000 adults through lung cancer each year. The report, which had seemingly run afoul of political considerations within the agency, was immediately denounced by the tobacco industry...
...ROUNDED OUT HIS CABINET ON THE DAY BEfore Christmas, Bill Clinton proved how hard it is to please all of the people all of the time. First he ran afoul of women's organizations, which complained that females were underrepresented in Clinton's Cabinet. The criticism -- coming just as he named African- American Hazel O'Leary, 55, to be Energy Secretary -- provoked an angry response from the President-elect, who accused women's groups of "playing quota games and math games." Clinton had barely finished fending off the feminists when some environmentalists inveighed against O'Leary, a utility executive Clinton...