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...easy. "There's never been a purposeful transformation in our energy system," he says. "We went to coal because it was better than wood, and we went to oil because it was better than coal." If we're going to cut out carbon, it's going to require a broad, dedicated policy, and it will take years. But we don't have much choice. As Roston's book shows, either the carbon age will end - or we might...
...bill they can defend,'' says Congressman Jim McDermott, a liberal Democrat and author of a rival proposal. Meanwhile, conservatives in Washington and on the radio talk-show circuit are raising basic questions about the very existence of a detailed plan. In fact, there is a broad program, and constituencies that oppose it are using the current void to make their case. The Health Insurance Association of America and its grass-roots allies last week began running a TV commercial that shows a couple studying a summary of the plan. The husband concludes that the goal of setting a national ceiling...
...disapproval of Cuomo's management style, you missed an important part of the picture. What I find most unusual about Cuomo is his ability to be both a hands-on executive, capable of mastering a great deal of governmental detail, and a chairman of the board who sets the broad policies and agenda for his administration. Few successful executives in or out of government are as capable in both facets of management simultaneously. James L. Larocca Lloyd Harbor, N.Y. Cuomo's philosophy that there be a ''sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all'' is just the same...
...delegation went on to a briefing at NATO's military headquarters in the capital, followed up by lunch with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Over a traditional meal of mutton baked with rice, carrots and raisins, Karzai and the Senators spoke on a broad range of issues, according to presidential spokesman Humayun Hamidzada. "The discussions focused on significant progress we have made, but also on the unmet challenges that are still ahead...
...decrying the excessive alcohol consumption of their compatriots, American and British health experts have long pointed to France with special admiration. Here, they said, was a society that masters moderate drinking. In wine-sipping France, the argument went, libation is just a small part of the broad festival of life, not the mind-altering prerequisite for a good time. The French don't wink like the English do at double-fisted drinking; they scorn people who lose control and get drunk in public. It's a neat argument. But it sounds a little Pollyannish now that France itself is grappling...