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...accepted at Kyoto: a 7% reduction in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from 1990 levels. The most concrete administrative initiative under way now is an energy task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney -another Western Republican. Later this month it is expected to recommend more oil exploration, research into cleaner burning of coal and new construction of nuclear power plants...
...from the officially atheist U.S.S.R., which had eliminated many of them anyway. On New Year's Eve, crews were permitted to set up a small, nonsectarian tree, which did little to improve the Das Boot ambience. To lift their mood further, they would break out the ship's vacuum cleaner and take turns riding it around the tree--the poor man's jet pack...
...investment we need to make sure we don't go into a recession." That was at his confirmation hearings. The disparaging comments about stock traders and their "glowing green screens" have ceased, and he seems satisfied with his puzzling weeks-long quest to make the Treasury department a cleaner, safer place to work. (He apparently spent much of his first weeks in office working not on economics but ergonomics.) Who knows - he may even be finished penning unwanted-attention-getting three-page memos to President Bush about global warming...
...proposal, accused Bush on Thursday of trying to "drill our way out of this problem... we cannot use our coming energy challenges as justification for an all-out assault on the environment." But they're likely to find what environmentalists have always found: Americans love to dream about a cleaner world, but when we find out what it'll cost, we'll usually take a good excuse instead...
...Friday, none of the committee members, not even my mother, had called me back. But I hope, within just a few weeks, to deliver a cleaner, decenter column, perhaps about Bush's tax proposal or the dangers of putting Q-Tips inside your ear. But until then, I'm going to the museum. I hear they have pictures of naked chicks...