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The U.S. unveiled incentives to persuade the Sudanese government to curb violence in its Darfur region. If Sudan addresses the humanitarian crisis and implements a 2005 agreement to end its civil war, Washington said it would consider normalizing relations. President Obama promised new sanctions should Khartoum refuse.
UP: I have never made a secret of my thinking on Tony Blair. I have experienced his leadership as a member of the European Council for a number of years, and I think he has extraordinary leadership capacity. Having made what some consider a major mistake in my mind does...
“You have worked to raise the alarm,” Smith said about faculty anxiety regarding the status of the libraries. “Consider it raised.”
...polluters to pay a fine to the government or to other smaller polluters should they pass a certain emissions benchmark. As soon as the votes were finished being counted in the House, conventional wisdom declared the bill dead in the Senate, where it faces overwhelming opposition by Republicans and considerable opposition by Democrats hailing from coal-producing states. Among the latter is Montana Senator Max Baucus, who said, “We cannot afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change but we also cannot afford the unmitigated effects of legislation.”Recently, however, prospects for the Senate climate...
“What [the public is] interested in is innovation in new technologies,” Giles said, adding that newspapers should consider developing differentiated “online ventures” to attract new investors with specialized interests.