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...optimism broke on the rocks of realism. How can any fractional reduction in energy consumption or carbon dioxide (CO2) output in a small region of well-off America make a noticeable difference while mammoth developing nations such as China and India go on a rampage of power plant-building and car-buying? Will the environmental blindness of the economic growth of these and other developing countries—not to mention continued energy-intensive expansion in America—nullify the effect of every green project for years to come...
Freshman Kerry Kartsonis and Wideroff broke free to challenge the Huskies defense in the second half, and fellow first-year Katherine Sheeleigh closed the door on the squad with her first goal of the season, a laser from 25 yards out that found the top-right corner of the goal...
...been the world's outstanding team, with a 75% win record against all rugby-playing nations, many of which have never beaten them. Yet the first Cup, of 1987, is the only one they have won. They're the rugby equivalent of Sergei Bubka, the Ukrainian pole vaulter who broke 35 vaulting world records but won only one Olympic medal...
...clip that equals previous confirmation rates. Not so his nominees for the U.S. circuit court, only three of whom have been confirmed in 2007. In the spring, in an episode recalling the 2005 "nuclear option" showdown that required a brokered deal on judicial nominees, a tense fight broke out over Judge Leslie Southwick, Bush's pick for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats finally agreed to vote on Southwick after Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened to bring the Senate to a standstill...
...more than 100 people have been arrested so far, including three bystanders in the western city of Sittwe whose alleged crime was to offer drinking water to a procession of protesting monks. On Sept. 3, a march from the town of Labutta drew hundreds of supporters before security forces broke up the rally. "If the regime doesn't resolve the underlying economic problems - and I don't think it can quickly - then things are not going to quiet down," says Khin Ohmar, an '88 student leader who lives in exile in Thailand. "We've all been waiting for the point...