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Curiously, prosecutors wished Brinkema had dismissed the case; they believed it would mean a cleaner and easier appeal. That's because, as public defender Dunham puts it, "it's a harder appeal for the government when it has lost the argument that we either have to compromise our national security or let Moussaoui go free. Instead, it's 'We either have to compromise our national security, or we can't kill him,'" which is exactly what government lawyers will have to argue now that Brinkema has taken away much of their case...
...will invest in the technologies of tomorrow—instead of vast subsidies for dirty industries and obsolete technologies, we’ll invest in a cleaner tomorrow...
...further isolated us from our neighbors by rejecting the Kyoto Treaty outright, instead of working with other nations to try to improve it. He thinks you should pay to clean up after corporate polluters. He’s stood in the way of our efforts to make cleaner, fuel-efficient cars. And if he would put even half the effort into trying to bring back jobs that he’s put into trying to drill his way through our most pristine national resources, we’d be in business...
...reception. The same cannot be said for the main outcome of their meeting: a "growth initiative" to funnel investment into big European infrastructure projects, like linking France's high-speed train system with Germany's; spending more money on the E.U.'s Galileo global positioning system; and investing in cleaner automobiles. "I don't think governments are very good at picking winners," says Dirk Schumacher, German economist at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "We do need infrastructure, but they shouldn't use this as an opportunity to steer the business cycle. In the past it hasn't worked...
Unable to let go of the fan idea, my husband and I seriously contemplated buying a hair dryer with a cool setting and rigging it into a fan. We opted for two bottles of glass cleaner instead; we filled them with cold water and madly doused each other. At night this strategy yielded a good 20 seconds of cool, during which we hoped to God to fall asleep...