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...Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. In his four years in the post, Inhofe held a total of five hearings on climate change, and the star witness was a science-fiction fabulist: Michael Crichton, a critic of warming theory. Now holding the gavel is California's Barbara Boxer, who has had five hearings on climate change in less than three months. While more hearings are a certainty, she must also help field a flock of green bills being offered by newly empowered Democratic members...
...face competition from Senators Jeff Bingaman and Arlen Specter, whose version would set higher caps and more gradual reductions. "The McCain-Lieberman proposal was very credible," Bingaman says. "[But] this draft has more prospect of actually being adopted." Yet another cap-and-trade bill will probably come out of Boxer's committee, and more bills still will be considered in the House of Representatives...
...boxing promoter, Songchai Ratanasuban, has opened the One Songchai Institute of Muay Thai, tel: (66-2) 618 5314, a school attached to the new Bangkok Boxing Stadium. Courses are offered at a range of levels. Curious newcomers can attend ringside lessons (from $45) that involve light sparring with professional boxers. One-day to one-week courses (from $20) are offered to dabblers, while the hard core can take the plunge with rigorous three- to six-week training programs (from $600) that include lessons with Thailand's best coaches, backpacker-style accommodation above the stadium, and home-cooked meals. After training...
Mike Thompson, also a California Dem, is preparing a bill that would build on Boxer's by making airlines frequently update flyers on the timing and cause of a delay and try to return checked bags within a day. Customers booking trips would have to be told the lowest fares and which flights are often late or canceled...
...enemies." But he's progressive at home; he has a long record of fighting for environmental concerns, prides himself on his early support for the civil rights movement and has earned strong ratings from labor. He's even working on a military mental-health bill with California liberal Barbara Boxer. His staff claims he votes with Democrats more than 90% of the time, if Iraq is removed from the calculation...