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...animosity continues, sparked at times by recalcitrance on the part of the Japanese government and at other times by the insensitivity - or nationalism - of individual Japanese. In February, politicians in Taiwan marched through the streets of Taipei to burn a comic book by Japanese artist Yoshinori Kobayashi, whose inflammatory take on Taiwan's history portrays so-called comfort women as grateful for the opportunity to work as prostitutes. Indonesians were upset earlier this year by a Japanese film Merdeka, which depicts Japan's imperial army as helping Indonesia's fight for independence. The filmmakers have agreed to delete one particularly...
...success implementing the Clean Air Act and reducing emissions from coal-fired plants. We need to do more. The President's recommended to the Congress that we spend some $2 billion next year on clean coal technology, finding ways to make coal an even cleaner fuel to burn in the future. So I expect it will be important going forward...
...power plants. You've got to invest. For example, we estimate some 38,000 miles of new gas pipelines over the next 20 years if you're going to have that kind of reliance on natural gas. Gas is attractive, partly because it's a relatively clean-burning fuel. So there are environmental reasons for going with gas. But both gas and coal also do emit carbon dioxide when you burn them. That in turn gets us over to looking at this whole question of whether or not we ought to go back and reconsider nuclear plants and new nuclear...
...rich province on the opposite end of the Indonesian archipelago, is starting to relive the East Timor tragedy. Separatist sentiment is building in the seaside towns, the jungle up-country and rice-growing villages. In reaction, the military has revived its time-honored strategy of slash and burn. On the wall of a torched house in Rantau Pangang, a riverine settlement on the main north-south highway, is a date daubed in paint: 25/3/2001. That was the day police and army units arrived in trucks to shoot six villagers, apparently randomly, and burn down most of the village. "There...
...extolled the benefits of regular, even intense, exercise, more than 5 million members of today's burgeoning cadre of seniors are running, bicep curling, sometimes even kickboxing, in health clubs up to five times a week. And with the supervision of good trainers, they are going for more burn than ever...