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...Getting into his Toyota Prius, Fukasawaguchi says that when he moved to Tokyo as a young man he didn't bother telling people where he was from because no one knew of Kuzumaki. It's different now, he says; the town is familiar to Japanese throughout the country. Whether it is ultimately recognized as a beacon pointing the way toward an oil-free energy future, or as a well-intentioned but ultimately misguided experiment, only time - and perhaps oil prices - can determine...
...from the current five to 10, not counting the period prior to Christmas. Even then, however, city councils must approve local extension of Sunday openings, a green light that may prove hard to obtain after the nation-wide romp the Socialists enjoyed in municipal elections last spring. "Don't bother voting this text, because it won't be applied," warned Socialist Party leader and mayor of Lille Martine Aubry. "We'll be as ferocious in battling this project as we were the initial...
...heading an organization advocating for increased grass-roots political power, was a "gadfly or hypocrite." The piece was titled "Pat Quinn - A Man Politicians Love to Hate," and it quoted him as saying, "I'm like a rolling stone gathering the moss of legislative opposition, but it doesn't bother me that much. I do it because someone has to try to make things better...
...means, "Cool it, Gort" and which was on every 12-year-old's lips a little more than a half century ago), a cross-species romance between Klaatu and an earth woman (Jennifer Connelly) that was once rather touching and now registers somewhere between fatuous and nonexistent. But why bother? Suffice it to say that these morons have, quite simply, turned The Day the Earth Stood Still on its head and what's falling out of its pockets in that upended state is a stream of junk. It does not have the charm of what little boys sometimes carry around...
...very power of these issues to determine our politics also means that they are too often delayed or simply avoided in our policy. “Democrats and Republicans will never agree,” the conventional wisdom declares, “Why even bother?” In the end, some of the past two decades’ most critical legislation was sacrificed to political expediency and Congress’s desperation to get something—anything—done. Comprehensive immigration reform was, after years of personal investment by President Bush, finally scrapped; ratification of the Kyoto...