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...correct in asserting that excluding India and China from the treaty exempts the world's two most populous nations from contributing to the reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions. The ultimate goal must be to include all developed and developing countries in a joint effort to curb the world's greenhouse gas emissions. But this cannot happen without U.S. leadership. It seems unlikely that Bush would provide such leadership if elected...
...disabled refugees seeking advanced medical treatments in the U.S. under the guise of escaping persecution. "The categories for a social group seem to be limited only by the imagination of immigration lawyers," says Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that aims to curb immigration. "Our asylum laws cannot account for all the vagaries of human vexation and misfortune...
...reasoning of Justice Stephen Breyer and decided otherwise. It is now in the interest of both justice and the nation's economic well-being that a final ruling be issued in the Microsoft case as soon as possible, and also that such a ruling take substantial measures to curb Microsoft's abuse of its disproportionate market power. Anything less would make a travesty of the judicial process and the competitive markets in which this country takes pride...
...Each year, despite all strategies to curb the fires, more and more of the Amazon has burned. During and after the 1998 El Ni?o disaster, Nepstad discovered that the damage was far greater than initially estimated. Even where the forest canopy remained unscathed, ground-hugging fires burned thousands of square kilometers of vegetation beneath the treetops. This burning, invisible to satellites, roughly doubled the reported deforestation by land clearing...
...crept higher, my accommodations got nicer and nicer until I was staying in stately hotels with real art on the walls and towels as big as blankets and where the answer to every question is, "Yes, sir. My pleasure, sir. Right away, sir." Black Lincolns waited at the curb, maitre d's whisked me to secluded corners, and I never saw a bill. Everything was handled quietly, out of sight. I went around for a week with $40 in my pocket, unspent...