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...House bill currently includes $33.5 billion in tax breaks and other incentives for the power industry aimed at increasing oil and gas exploration, developing new coal-burning technologies and promoting nuclear energy. Politically and substantively, the funds for conservation and alternative energy sources remain the afterthought rather than the centerpiece. Daschle?s version will doubtless reverse that proportion, betting that by the time summer is past and the Senate digs into energy this fall, public opinion will be in his favor...
...million smile, they've been smiling on her ever since 1985, when she graduated from high school in Smyrna, Ga., and headed to New York City to be with her big sister Lisa. "The whole point of me moving was to reunite with her," says Roberts. Acting was an afterthought--"something that I could attempt to do in New York"--but fate saw her coming. On the count of three--Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman--Roberts was a star. Now, at age 33, with an Oscar and a recent string of hits that includes the summer of '99 doubleheader...
...Courtrooms, of course, are an afterthought in the war on terrorism, which is generally fought through a combination of intelligence and security work and diplomatic leverage. Although Iran remains on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism, thereby making it subject to a range of automatic sanctions, there has been widespread recognition in the West that the fledgling reformist government of President Muhammad Khatami has moved to end support for terrorism. The problem is that while the recent election showed Khatami commands overwhelming public support, his real power is limited to the point of paralysis by a political...
Nepal is defiantly individualistic, to the point of setting its clocks 15 minutes ahead of neighboring India's and practicing a syncretic, resolutely devout brand of Hinduism. But it has always been a bit of an international afterthought. Sandwiched between subcontinental superpower India and Chinese-occupied media-darling Tibet, Nepal has developed such a muddled identity that it now comes across as merely a staging ground for Everest expeditions and a destination where stoned Western hippies can score killer brownies...
When the Harvard women's hockey team closed out its 2000-01 season with an emotional 3-2 win over top rival Dartmouth at Minneapolis in the consolation game of the inaugural Women's Frozen Four, the victory on the ice that day was an afterthought. The team's reflections were focussed entirely on the players it was losing that...