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Environmentalists are fighting new plants with every weapon in their arsenal, from launching lawsuits over CO2 regulations to lobbying financiers to stop investing in coal. Governors in states like Kansas and Florida are blocking new plants. But to some greens, the threat of new coal plants coming online is so dire that it demands a more corporeal level of engagement. This fall, at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, Al Gore announced, "I believe we've reached the stage where it's time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal-fired...
...highly unusual free loan arrangement leaves open the possibility that Beckham is simply going to Milan to keep in shape through the European winter by training with a top club, and keeping his England prospects alive. (He spent last year's MLS off-season training with England's Arsenal.) But Milan is hyping the arrival of its new recruit, and suggests it could buy out the remainder of Beckham's contract with L.A. The chance of that happening, however, if highly improbable, given the money required and Beckham's own declining play. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena opposes even a loan...
...vehicle for telling war stories, had its own flurry of interest but after a few star-studded box-office underperformers (In the Valley of Elah, Redacted and, most recently, Body of Lies) has largely retreated to its foxhole. Theater has stepped into the breach, using an impressive arsenal of stage weaponry to grapple in more imaginative, varied and visceral ways with the U.S.'s extended tour of duty in Iraq...
...enough to bring security to the insurgency-wracked villages of southern Afghanistan. Afghan police are only lightly armed. They carry AK-47s, and each truck is mounted with a Russian light machine gun. In Bala Beluk, Khodaydad's forces routinely face insurgents armed with an arsenal of mortars, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, armor piercing rounds and increasingly sophisticated Improvised Explosive Devices. Between March 2007 and March 2008 police casualties hit 1119, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Afghan National Army deaths, by contrast, were 280. In the six months since March, another 720 police have died. "Our police have...
...happened instead, says Zhenkun Ma, head of research at the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, who was not involved in the new study, is that "we use really old drugs to fight a very new disease. TB evolves every day." So do all other bacteria. Increasingly, the old arsenal of antibiotics is losing power...