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...gloriously Republican method of environmental regulation: Charging companies for the pollutants they emit. Cost-benefit-obsessed Bush regulatory chief John D. Graham can take care of the calculations, and together they push the dirtiest industries to clean up out of self-interest and put market forces to work for cleaner technologies. Not to mention bring the EPA - and the government - a whole new revenue stream...
...idea at an economic conference at Princeton and was startled by the enthusiasm it generated among business leaders and students alike. Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott, on a trip home to Mississippi, says the idea was talked up by a satellite-dish installer and the clerk at his dry cleaner in Pascagoula. The plan also won support from state and local governments--themselves major employers facing budget crunches. All sides are back at the negotiating table on Capitol Hill, and the measure now stands a good chance of being part of an economic-stimulus package...
...attacks, almost everyone - not least commodity traders - assumed that the price of oil would soar. After all, that's usually what happens when there is such fear of instability in the Middle East. Some might even have hoped that the disaster would bring new urgency to the search for cleaner, safer and renewable energy sources...
...sleep, a small bottle of Bacardi Limon mixed into a concession-stand Coke during a viewing of Harry Potter on Friday and a $20 bag of marijuana split with a high school friend before a night spent watching Animal Planet on Saturday. “I do feel cleaner,” Black said, reflecting on his week of sobriety over drinks Sunday morning at Daedalus, “And I think I’m gonna stay dry?...
...express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer meeting, soldiers forced passersby into mosques at gunpoint. At the Malali High School, Siad Bibi knew that her life had turned a terrible corner. She was a cleaner until the Taliban decreed that she could not leave her house, which is right next door, without her husband, who is old and ill. "Now I have no work. I can't go outside," she says. She adds that the situation is even worse for Kabul's estimated 25,000 widows...