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...Remember what Bush Senior called you? Ozone Man. Well, now is the time for Ozone Man to come out of the woods. Sure, Bush said yesterday that he was going to spend $5 billion sprucing up the national parks, but Americans only know that he wants to drill in Alaska, build hundreds of power plants, and keep his oil business cronies in the black. You shouldn't overtly criticize him, but instead talk about the virtues and practicalities of energy conservation. It's good to be green these days...
...gasoline to more than $2 a gallon, Bush predicted the country would need 1,300 new gas, coal or nuclear power stations over the next 20 years as well as more oil exploration. While the plan offered some conservation incentives, critics pointed to the Adminstration's proposed opening of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling as an assault on the environment and accused the President of using the new policy to reward former colleagues and supporters in the oil industry. Bush maintained that his proposals would "light the way to a brighter future," and tackle the countrywide...
Evan Ramsey knows. Four years ago, he brought a pump-action shotgun to his Alaska high school and opened up, killing the principal and one student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told TIME...
...years ago, the Institute of Medicine concluded that marijuana has potential therapeutic value. Polls show nearly three-quarters of Americans favor medical-marijuana use, and juries are increasingly reluctant to convict sick people for possession. Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii have set up state registries for medipot users; Colorado, California, Nevada and Maine are debating similar moves. Such grassroots enthusiasm carries little weight with drug warriors, who dispute the scientific data and argue that marijuana leads to hard narcotics. In an interview with TIME last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft praised the Supreme Court decision. "We can't function well...
...George, say goodbye to drilling in Alaska, farewell to the missile shield, and hello to patients' rights - and, just maybe, to President Daschle...