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...cause in the way their parents were to World War II. However, the threat of a draft pulled them into civic discourse. Many ran for office, protested, and became radicals. They managed to get a constitutional amendment passed that lowered the voting age to 18, elected a new crop of congressmen, and eventually ended the war. Both those who supported and opposed the war saw an opportunity to allow their voices to be heard and wanted to participate in American democracy. The sacrifice of the draft forced involvement...
...victory that must be carefully tended to avoid defeat. Now that it faces a breathing opposition, Labour has to resolve the internal ambiguities that Blair was able to blur, like the tension between cutting poverty and cutting taxes. The good news for Labour is that it has a crop of competent young Ministers who want to try. The ultimate test for Blair's legacy is whether Labour can prosper without him. Britain may find out soon...
...estates only existed because they had money coming in from outside," says Robert Balfour, chairman of the Association of Deer Management Groups. Derek Louden, the rural development manager hired to come up with an economic strategy for Assynt's land, believes this can change. He has asked the Scottish Crop Research Institute to find a crop to be farmed for biodiesel, and is enticing big companies to sponsor the planting of woodlands to offset carbon emissions. A marina is being built. Alastair MacAskill, the local butcher and chairman of the Assynt Foundation [EM] the residents' association that now owns...
...says masons and carpenters may have followed. When she first arrived, Godin says, she was flying blind: "I was like a fireman, with no documents, no instructions, nothing," she says. In September, the lrmh identified the fungus as Fusarium solani, a virulent mold that commonly infects soil and crops and often proves so drug-resistant that whole crop fields must be dug up and burned. Not everyone is convinced that the fungus entered the cave on the thick soles of contractors' boots. Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, director of the lrmh, says that a long-term, low-level presence of formaldehyde...
...press release was issued last week announcing the selection of the first crop of fellows...