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...Moscow to agree to changes in the treaty before President Putin meets with Bush in November. Withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, considered the cornerstone of arms control between Russia and the U.S., requires six months' formal notification. A Pentagon plan to begin missile defense testing at a site in Alaska in the spring would necessitate abandoning the ABM pact by late fall. Russia made no official reply to the announcement. BRITAIN Tory Story The battle for leadership of the Conservative Party heated up, as ballot papers were sent to 300,000 party members and former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher...
...that. As recently as 1994, the government estimated the number at just 345,000. True, even the largest estimates still put the home schooled at only 4% of the total K-12 population--but that would mean more kids learn at home than attend all the public schools in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined...
...House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month largely on the promise of an important number. To win moderates in their party, Republicans added an amendment limiting drilling to just 2,000 of the park's 1.5 million acres. But it turns out those 2,000 acres don't have to be contiguous, and only the area of the equipment touching the ground is counted. Since each drilling platform takes up as little as 10 acres, the limit would allow oil companies to spread out over practically the entire park. Another key number...
...persuade lawmakers to vote for his industry-friendly energy proposals and get his preferred version of HMO reform through the House. And so a President not known for working overtime managed to grind out a string of victories. The House easily passed Bush's energy package, which includes the Alaska drilling provision the pundits had declared dead. His education plan moved toward resolution; the Senate even passed his $5.5 billion emergency farm-aid bill after Democrats dropped demands for more money. And the President's biggest win--the narrow passage of an Administration-designed compromise on the long-stymied patients...
Congress loves to play fast and loose with numbers, particularly when one side or the other is using them to justify a bill. Two such cases came earlier this month, when the House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are a total of 19 million acres in the refuge, and in 1980 Congress set aside 1.5 million of them along a strip of the refuge's northern Arctic Ocean coast for possible oil exploration. Oil companies and Alaska's congressional delegation have been anxious ever since to start drilling there. The oil companies believe...