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...Cronje scandal prompted the International Cricket Council to set up an Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to go after illegal bookmakers. But rumors of match fixing linger. Former Pakistani fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz believes that South Asia's bookmaking Mafia still manipulates results and that a bookie is probably behind Woolmer's murder. "Where there is gambling, there is money," he says, "and where there is money, there is murder." Using cell-phone numbers that they discard daily, and a series of codes when speaking to avoid police detection, bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian...
...hostile territory--Bush's desk. Still, Bush 2007 is not Bush 2004, and the embattled President may decide that vetoing a piece of broadly popular legislation is not a fight worth picking now, especially since corporations see value in it. Kristin Hellmer, a spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will not rule out the President's signing onto cap-and-trade or any other green bill. "It's a bit premature to have that conversation," she says...
...bleak. The U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council is trying to help the Chinese clean up, working with their businesses to audit energy consumption and developing a fund to bankroll the installation of more efficient equipment in factories. Barbara Finamore of the China Clean Energy Program estimates that this could eliminate the need for 3,000 new power plants over the next few decades. China also imposes higher taxes on large cars than on small ones; subsidizes wind, solar and other renewables; and has passed a law that aims to make 15% of the country's power come from renewables...
...that effectively bars the legalization of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best organized opposition group and holder of 88 seats as independents in the current parliament. The contentious amending of Article 88 eliminates judicial supervision of elections and gives oversight authority to a new supreme elections council, thus ending what many Egyptians see as the only credible safeguard for free and fair voting...
...Pervez Mir denounced the match-fixing allegations as a distraction from the murder investigation, it's a line of inquiry the Jamaican police are certainly taking seriously, as demonstrated by the fact that the murder investigation is working with the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of the International Cricket Council...