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...skeptics, this smells fishy. The vagaries of the 1975 mileage laws may prevent the Administration from raising standards this way without first getting approval from Congress. If Bush really wants to boost mileage, they say, he should just tell his Department of Transportation to do so across the board. "There's a bit of slipperiness here," says John deCicco, an automotive engineer and a senior fellow with Environmental Defense. "He doesn't need Congress to get off the dime on this...
...suit for Labor, the Howard government is particularly vulnerable to claims that it has neglected this area. Australia ranks low among rich countries on spending for early childhood education, scientific research and development, and vocational skills. The government's top economic bureaucrats have consistently warned of the need to boost productivity and invest in education and skills so as to reduce the future financial burden on younger workers as the boomer generation retires. In the popular mind, Howard's government, which has delivered good economic results for a decade, does not rate highly on education. To the contrary...
...direction for him both with something he said and something he didn't say. The thing he didn't say was ANWR - or Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That's the place the Administration and the energy industry have wanted to get their drills into for years in order to boost domestic energy production. It's also the place environmentalists have been fighting just as fiercely to keep off limits. The symbolic significance of the battle always far exceeded the relatively small amount of oil locked up there, and the President's omission of any mention of ANWR tonight...
...same time, a court-ordered investigation detailed an elaborate torture ring operated - and later covered up - by high-ranking Chicago police officials from the 1970s until the '90s. What's more, in an unprecedented show of defiance, the city council broke ranks with the mayor, passing an ordinance to boost the wages that Big Box employers like Wal-Mart and Target would have to pay. In the end, Daley persuaded enough aldermen to reverse positions to ensure his veto wouldn't be overridden, demonstrating that "da Mayor" was still very much the boss...
Fifty homegrown productions, including films like Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute and the upcoming Elizabeth sequel, The Golden Age, contributed $290 million. But the real boost came from outsiders, especially U.S. studios, which poured $1.12 billion into filming Bond and Potter as well as non-English creations using the country's locations, talent or technical know-how. That's the level of activity the industry might have expected after a bumper year like 2003 when Bridget Jones joined forces with Troy and Alexander to help generate $2.2 billion...