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...finding confirms that greenhouse-gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations," said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. "Fortunately, it follows President Obama's call for a low-carbon economy and strong leadership in Congress on clean energy and climate legislation...
...momentous as the EPA's decision was - the finding stated "in both magnitude and probability, climate change is an enormous problem" - no one actually wants the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. Not even Jackson or Obama, both of whom have repeatedly stated that they would much prefer Congress to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions directly, most likely through a cap-and-trade program. Most environmentalists feel the same way. The problem is getting cap-and-trade passed in Congress; most Republicans are against it on the grounds that it might hurt the economy by raising energy prices...
...programs known as CEDU, which was founded by former Synanon members. "The process of breaking kids down is very much integrated into the therapeutic milieu," says Kat Whitehead, executive director of the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth, an expert on such abuse, who has testified before Congress on the topic. "Unfortunately, that seems to be very common, at least in the private facilities...
...military parlance, he's "shaping the battlefield" for the fights ahead with Congress, which gets the final word on military spending and doesn't take kindly to economic engines in its home districts and states being summarily axed. Key programs on his chopping block include the Air Force's $350 million-a-copy F-22 Fighter, the Army's $160 billion Future Combat Systems - a network of ground and air vehicles - and the Navy's DDG 1000 Destroyer. To prevail, Gates is employing what those in uniform call TTPs - tactics, techniques and procedures...
...essay plays down Deng's role as a reformer and insists that Deng - who forced Hu Yaobang from power in 1987 for his sympathetic handling of democracy advocates' protests in December of 1986 - was nothing more than a political conservative who monopolized power and treated the National People's Congress as a rubber stamp body. Just as Hu started his social reforms by coming to terms with all the injustices and wrongs of the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jiwei writes that today's leaders in Beijing need to rectify a host of wrongs that Deng committed - namely, the lack of progress...