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...11th century, a Pagan King banned the sacrifice of animals at the rocky crag. He also started constructing temples and monasteries at its summit in an effort to curtail nat worship in order to establish Buddhism's dominance. He had only mixed success. Today, Popa Daung Kalat is one of Burma's major pilgrimage sites; visited by a steady stream of Burmese who turn to the nats to resolve problems in this life, and look to Buddhism for assurances in the next...
...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...
...April 2000, China specifically outlawed e-waste importation. But occasional crackdowns have done little to curtail recycling, which thrives on corruption and strong market demand. According to Guiyu junk dealers, shipments often reach the mainland at Nanhai, a Guangdong port city, where they are sorted at large warehouses owned and operated by Taiwanese businessmen. From there, the goods are shipped via truck to Guiyu, where they are then re-sorted and the last round of scrapping is performed. For now, at least, e-waste meets its true and final end in the air of Guiyu's skies, the water coursing...
...Most cease and desist letters do curtail free speech because the person who receives it is not able to make an informed choice about the contents of the letter,” Cabell says...
...Hyogo prefecture. It's one of thousands of wasteful highway projects?known as roads to nowhere?that are gradually transforming Japan into a giant parking lot, causing the national deficit to spiral and propping up inefficient, bloated construction companies. This is exactly the sort of scheme Japan needs to curtail if it is going to get its economy back in shape. Reformist Yamaguchi, however, now that he is in office, supports the highway. "Of course I am lobbying the Ministry of Transportation that we have to build more roads," he says, explaining that a new road would encourage development...