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...Clinton administration helped negotiate the treaty and signed it last year, Kyoto has plenty of American critics. Governor George W. Bush for one, who, like his oil industry backers, remains unconvinced of the scientific basis for all this global warming stuff despite the consensus among mainstream scientists. And they complain that developing nations aren't required by Kyoto to do enough, even though everyone agrees that the industrialized countries have created the lion's share of the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why America's Close Election Is Bad News for a Warm Planet | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...them suspected how much of it would come down to Palm Beach County. Or to the experience of people like Andre Fladell, 52, a Jewish chiropractor. At around 7 a.m., he punched his ballot at Orchard Elementary School in Delray Beach. On the way out, when he heard people complain that the ballot had confused them, he assumed they had not paid enough attention. But at lunch later with friends, Fladell says, he broke into a cold sweat when he heard them describe the correct punch hole for Gore-Lieberman. Fladell realized that he too had inadvertently voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Eye Of The Storm | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Central time zone. Also, the raw numbers the Bush people were seeing were telling them they were slightly ahead of Gore statewide, not behind. "I don't believe some of these states they've called," Bush said. Rove and strategist Ed Gillespie called the networks to complain. "I don't know how you can call a state that's this close!" Bush media adviser Stu Stevens protested. "It's ridiculous! It's an outrage!" It was Rove's idea to summon the camera pool into the Governor's mansion so Bush could break into the newscasts and question the Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Reversal of... ...Fortune | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...sugar content and the money the farmer can get from a cooperative for his crop. The Pokhale cooperative owns only one harvester, which is usually monopolized by bigger, more influential farmers. But now the harvesting dates for every village and farm are available on the network, and farmers can complain to the cooperative chief if the harvester fails to arrive at the appointed hour. Ghewari, 63, who grows cane in a five-acre field, was quick to see the phosphorescent writing on the wall. He made his only son, Bhalchandra, give up a tire-company job to become Pokhale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wiring India's Villages | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...seems unreasonable for students now to complain that Sen. Pryor should have consulted SAC before making a change that will transform the IOP into an open, democratic institution. SAC would have refused the very change that will help end the favoritism and exclusion inherent in its particularly self-selecting system...

Author: By Rebecca C. Hardiman, | Title: Tough Medicine for the IOP | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

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