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...Then there's the fact that the record low oil prices of the '90s ushered in some habits detrimental to Washington's long-term goals of increasing fuel efficiency to help combat global warming. "Twenty years ago there was a lot more emphasis on fuel efficiency in the automobile industry," says Dowell. "Now everybody's driving gas-guzzling trucks. While the government doesn't want the sort of sharp increases we've seen over the past month, a gradual increase in the price of gasoline may suit its environmental goals...
...Technology already devised a method to brush away the radio waves and bypass brain cell mutation. For cell phone addicts everywhere, profit-hungry companies have not missed a beat. To combat this medical finding and loss of sales, auxiliary earpiece/headsets accompany most new cellular models. With this little ear-piece in place the phone can be stored in a pocket away from the ear and head area thus reducing the talkers' interaction with killer radio waves...
...OPEC and George W. Bush bashes the administration for not doing enough to bring gas prices back down, the real news that nobody wants to share with the electorate is that if the U.S. is to ever even come close to meeting its commitments under the international treaty to combat global warming, prices at the pump may need to go up a lot higher than they have in recent months...
During last fall's "war" with Adams House, publicity through the list helped muster hundreds of militaristic residents with painted faces and banners, ready for combat...
...Slobodan Milosevic. The British Broadcasting Corporation reported Thursday that an internal classified U.S. military report found that a spy inside NATO systematically tipped off the Serbs on NATO's targets during the first two weeks of the Kosovo campaign. The allegation, contained in a documentary titled "Moral Combat: NATO at War" to be broadcast by the British network on Sunday, has been disputed by U.S. and NATO officials - some of whom, speaking in the same documentary, blame the limited success of the early phases of the air war on the limits imposed on it by some NATO-member governments. After...