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Coal powers China. The original fossil fuel is the source of explosive economic growth in China, just as it was in Britain at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and in the U.S. later. China is the world's biggest consumer of coal, its factories and homes using nearly a third of total world production. Much of that coal is dug in tens of thousands of mines scattered across the windblasted ocher hills northeast of Beijing. It is here--more than in the textile factories of the south where Western activists complain of sweatshop conditions--that Chinese pay in blood...
...deal has implications far beyond Texas. The Lone Star State is No. 7 in the world for greenhouse gases (emitting more CO2 than Britain), and TXU is the state's biggest corporate contributor. Those 11 coal-fired plants would have thrown off 78 tons of carbon dioxide a year--double the savings expected from California's Clean Cars legislation, passed last year. The buyout firms promised not only to halt eight of the Texas plants but also to terminate plans for coal-fired operations in New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland--a recognition that momentum is growing in Washington for legislation...
...January, Butler-Sloss, who was one of Britain's top judges before she retired, decided to preside over the case alone because she thought that the volume and detail of the evidence would be too much for a jury to handle. She said that only a coroner could give the "careful and fully reasoned decision" that the inquests required. Her ruling seemed to go against the wishes of Princes William and Harry, who a week earlier had sent a letter to Butler-Sloss asking that the inquest "not only be open, fair and transparent, but that it should move swiftly...
...able to look its ordinary citizens straight in the eyes before killing them for their own good. And please spare those people speeches about how it is only their government we hate, not them. If the whole world operated by that standard, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Britain and President George W. Bush's U.S. would have been invaded a good four years...
...another moment of judgment will arrive. Says Hamad: "We will have to find a way to market this government on the international level, to the U.S. and Europe, to see if they will recognize it and deal with it." The Quartet that is overseeing the negotiations - the U.S., Britain, Russia, and the U.N. - has set up several conditions for Hamas: recognition of Israel, disavowal of violence, and recognition of all past agreements with the Jewish state. Hamas leaders have thus far tried to cobble together an acceptable formulation, saying their members in government would recognize past agreements, which implicitly recognize...