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...White House tone deaf, or is it Cheney...
...Scientists, water professionals, environmental campaigners and others have warned for decades that a water crisis was building - alarm bells that rang on many a deaf governmental ear. The crisis is partly due to natural cycles of extreme weather and the expansion and contraction of arid regions. But human activity has been playing an ever-greater role in creating water scarcity and "water stress" - defined as the indication that there is not enough good-quality water to meet human and environmental needs. Like so much of the earth's bounty, water is unevenly distributed. While people in some parts...
...that territory. If the rockets intercepted by the Israelis were indeed sent by Hezbollah - which may provoke a sharp Israeli response directed at Syrian targets in Lebanon - that may simply add to the reasons why Pope John Paul II's pleas for Israeli-Syria peace will fall on deaf ears...
...First, the EPA chief indicated Sunday that after gauging the opposition to Alaskan oil drilling, her boss was going green and beating a strategic retreat. "Look, nobody's deaf, dumb and blind over there, and everybody knows the environment is important, and we saw how things have been portrayed," EPA chief Christie Whitman said on ABC Sunday. Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge "has to go through the Congress in order to happen, and it's very difficult...
...committed relatively trivial traffic violations, like not wearing a seat belt. Not surprisingly, the implicated drivers tend not to be particularly happy about being handcuffed, taken to the station and fingerprinted. But now, thanks to a 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court, such civilian complaints will fall on deaf ears...