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...impact is not the same as no impact. To release gas from a coal bed, each well must pump out large quantities of water--about 12,000 gal. a day--much of which has too high a sodium content to be used on the land. This water has to be stored in the large reservoirs that now punctuate the landscape. And the gas companies need pipes, roads, compressor stations and power lines to pump the gas out of the ground and into pipelines that run to Denver and Chicago. "It's a very complex mess, basically, and it is changing...
...They're not done. Not content with flying New Yorkers up and down the East Coast, JetBlue started the first low-fare, non-stop transcontinental service from JFK to California - and this week they announced that it would start flying from Washington's Dulles International Airport - an airport it doesn't even serve at the moment - to Oakland and Long Beach, California...
...things instead of what they're saying," says Paul Begala, who saw his share of trouble as an adviser to Bill Clinton. In 1994, as Clinton pressed his health-care overhaul and lurched toward a wipeout in the midterm elections, his advisers insisted it was the delivery, not the content, that was turning off the public. "Guess what? It was the content," says Begala. "So we changed. We had to." Bush's predicament is not so dire. Robert Teeter, co-author of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that caused some anguish in the White House last week, says there...
Better still, make it up. Recently the Pulitzer prizewinning historian Joseph Ellis, who has every reason to be content with a distinguished intellectual life, admitted he had fabricated a history of having been a paratrooper in Vietnam. Sadly, crazily, he gave himself a past to amend some self-perceived deficiency...
...rich consumers - such as tomatoes with a longer shelf life. It will take far greater public investment to turn the tools of GM to the needs of poor communities. The potential is to develop crops that have better drought tolerance, greater pest resistance, higher yields and greater nutritional content - and all of those characteristics are important in improving the food security of poor rural communities...