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...Those nice accountants at Deloitte & Touche calculate that a couple with two children under 17 and an income of $50,000 -? that?s about average -- would receive an annual tax cut of $265. One car payment, maybe. As the late, great Chris Farley used to say, whoop-de-freakin...
...CHARLES DE GAULLE If we are to single out a personality among all those who have shaped contemporary history, I would cite General Charles de Gaulle. He was the incarnation of honor and courage. I had the privilege of knowing him and of working at his side. I learned from him that intimate, almost mystical, alliance between a nation and its leader. The relationship between De Gaulle and France was a personal and unique bond. During World War II, he was the symbol of the Resistance and later the spirit of reform. He restored political and economic stability. Never give...
...ambitious construction scheme was hatched in the early '80s by local officials and organizations determined to tame the river. The plans included two major dams, at Serre-de-la-Fare and Chambonchard, and two smaller ones. The stated aim was to prevent flooding, expand irrigation and boost water flow during dry years. Opponents suspected other motives: increasing the water supply to cool four nuclear reactors along the river and boosting development in areas now subject to flooding...
...acts was to organize environmental-impact studies showing that the dams would harm water quality, threaten biodiversity, destroy several villages, displace hundreds of people--and still fail to provide good protection against flooding. In 1989 the group launched its most spectacular and effective action: the occupation of the Serre-de-la-Fare site by several hundred ecologists who camped in tents, cooked over open fires, strummed guitars--and blocked the bulldozers for five years...
...Serre-de-la-Fare dam was finally canceled in 1994, and two others are in jeopardy. One smaller dam was built, but Jean believes the ecological impact will be limited. She is now turning her attention to fighting a plan to enlarge the port of Nantes-St. Nazaire, which would destroy wetlands in the Loire estuary...