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...hours in the car, especially with traffic worsening. The population of extreme commuters - those who travel 90 minutes or more each way - has hit 3.5 million, double the number in 1990. But the worst effects - the ones that affect us all - are environmental. As long as the car is central to the American lifestyle - one we're in the process of exporting to developing countries like China - making the necessary, drastic cuts in carbon emissions will be very difficult. "What is causing global warming is the lifestyle of the American middle class," says Duany. "It's terrible for nature...
Whom you supported greatly while you were in Congress. When I agreed with him. I also disagreed with him on issues like the water bill, like CAFTA [the Central America Free Trade Agreement] and I voted against the Administration when I didn't think their priorities were right for my state. But I'm proud. I worked for this Administration for two years. I'm proud to have done that. I make no apologies for being a conservative, for being a Republican...
...news that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) destroyed two videotapes in 2005 has caused more furor than the suspected contents of the tapes themselves. The tapes likely contained footage of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment given legitimacy under the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” regime. But rather than focus on who authorized the contents of the tapes, critics have focused on the CIA cover...
...Amity has churned out 41 million Bibles for Chinese believers at its plant outside the southern city of Nanjing, including more than 3 million copies last year. (About nine million copies have been exported to Africa, other parts of Asia and Central Europe.) For a country whose religious oppression tends to make more international headlines than its exhibitions of tolerance, that stands as a significant achievement. But it also highlights the gap between China's officially sanctioned churches and the illegal "house" churches that exist outside the limited sphere of religious freedom in China...
...About 80% of the Bibles Amity produces are for domestic use, with the remainder going to Christians in Africa, Central Europe and other Asian nations. A poll early this year by East China Normal University in Shanghai of 4,500 Chinese found that 31.4% considered themselves religious, a proportion that suggests 300 million Chinese believers; of the religious respondents, Christians represented 12%, or 40 million nationwide. Demand has grown to the point that the foundation plans to open a new, 515,000-square-foot (48,000 sq. m.) printing plant next year, which will allow Amity to turn out more...