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...station at Marsden Point is modernized, it will be the cleanest coal-fired plant in Australasia, says its owner, Mighty River Power. But that doesn't impress critics, who say getting electricity from coal is a betrayal of New Zealand's Kyoto Protocol obligations. "It's a backward step for us to start using coal," says Fitzsimons...
Leaning back under the pressure, Corriero’s face becomes visible to the press box as her neck moves in the direction of the pulling, tilting her head towards the rafters. Her left arm swings backward over her shoulder, and, for a moment, it seems like Corriero might actually get pulled down to the ice and fall...
...conspired and conducted by a group of people" in connection with the death of Forbes Russia journalist Paul Klebnikov who was gunned down last summer outside his Moscow office. A number of suspects - all from Chechnya - have been detained since September, but Ibragimov is the first to be indicted. Backward, March SYRIA Officials announced the planned redeployment of some of the 14,000 Syrian troops stationed in Lebanon to positions closer to the Syrian border. International pressure on Damascus to withdraw its military forces from Lebanon has increased since the Feb. 14 car bomb in Beirut that killed former Lebanese...
...life and his own childhood, both of which were spent in Omaha, Neb. Rips discovered, for starters, that his father was raised in a brothel, which was run by Rips' great-grandparents. He revisited some vivid memories of his own childhood: a local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe with Frank Conroy's excellent Stop-Time...
...research in America. He is certain that Bush “really believes that science is important,” but the best he could come up with to defend the science budget was the assertion that although the budget is “austere, we are not going backward.” Sadly, we are not going forward either...