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...understand what the Bush Administration is doing, it makes sense to compare Bush with his father. In 1990 President George H.W. Bush signed a sweeping expansion of the then 20-year-old Clean Air Act. By contrast, his son is trying not to extend existing policy or even curtail it but to remake it in fundamental ways. Bush is preternaturally opposed to anything regulatory--and existing clean-air law, he believes, saddles energy producers with too many rules and too little incentive to be clean. So in February Bush proposed new legislation to curtail power-plant pollution. His plan, which...
...Sierra Club's 12 solutions" to the energy crunch. But even a loose reading of the plans shows at most three similarities. The Sierra Club, for example, wants the country to use nonhydro renewables such as wind and solar power for 20% of its energy by 2020. Cheney, by contrast, aims for only 2.8%. "If Bush really believes these plans are similar," says Sierra Club president Carl Pope, "then Arthur Andersen must be checking his math." The bottom line is that Cheney's plan calls for $33 billion in energy-industry subsidies, including $13 billion for the oil industry...
...football stadium at Jerez, Spain, follows a similar pattern of broken linearity. The oval stadium seating is topped entirely by a corrugated metal covering, but has its lines interrupted by a pavilion that escalates above the surface. In contrast to the undulating planar surface, the pavilion is a jagged enclosure with the appearance of fractured rock...
...contrast to the empty chest-beating that characterizes much hip hop, J-Live’s lyrics are as central to his music as Bob Dylan’s. A bona fide emcee, J-Live grips the mic with the fire of a hungry artist and the self-assuredness of a professional. He flows like liquid, but his voice resonates with urgency and charisma. His songs are rife with lyrical invention: “One For The Griot” seems like a typical storytelling rap until someone in the studio complains about the violent ending, prompting him to rewind?...
...shopping in Hollywood for 35-mm movies to be converted to high def. A kids' show is in the works. He even sent veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett to Afghanistan to report a seven-part series, providing the most disturbingly real pictures yet from the war zone--in jarring contrast to the main networks' blurry satellite-phone feeds. Cuban says he would have "no problem" spending $100 million of his $1.9 billion net worth to make HDNet a success. "It's not a question of if HDTV will make it, but when," he says. "It's a question...