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Efforts have included the creation of a website—www.lifeandliberty.com—aimed at “dispelling some of the major myths perpetuated as part of the disinformation campaign” and a nationwide tour to allow Ashcroft the chance to defend its merits...
...developed a faster-acting anthrax vaccine that by next year is expected to complete Phase I clinical trials, in which a substance is tested on healthy volunteers to evaluate its safety in increased doses. Current anthrax vaccines require 18 injections over six months. That's too slow to defend against a sudden widespread outbreak or to permit people to return safely to contaminated homes and workplaces, where spores may linger for years...
Utah governor Mike Leavitt will face a grilling later this month when the Senate considers his nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency. The Republican will have to defend the Bush Administration's environmental record, including last week's revised EPA rules governing pollution at older power plants. Under the old regimen, utilities that wanted to update their plants were required to install extensive pollution controls. The new rules will allow them to upgrade without putting in such equipment...
...fact, the two cases are wildly unalike. As Chicago economist and China watcher David Hale points out, there was never a constituency in the U.S. to defend Japan because American companies felt (with some reason) that they could neither sell nor invest there. China could not be more different. Not only are hundreds of American companies investing in plants in China, but they are also diving into the growing Chinese market for consumer goods as if it were going out of style. U.S. firms like Motorola, General Motors and Procter & Gamble can't wait to sell their cell phones, cars...
...main factor in the insurgency. The main factor is that the Maoists use terrorism to gain support and people are scared. They have tortured people, cut off their limbs and harassed them. It should not have taken this long for the parties to come together and defend democracy against these Maoists, but we are doing...