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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sharply criticized the EPA, and announced that the state would seek to overturn the decision in court. They'll have a strong case - Johnson's own lawyers in the EPA argued that the agency would be unable to defend the move, the Washington Post reported. But it's likely to take half a year or more for the case to make its way through the courts, delaying efforts to control greenhouse gases. Coming after a string of relative victories for the environmental movement - the first federal climate change bill just passed out of committee...
...Canadian dollar hit its all-time high was not, in fact, Nov. 7, 2007. The pinnacle came more than 140 years earlier, when Confederate troops reached the outskirts of Washington, D.C., forcing Union soldiers to decamp from Virginia and defend their capital. The Canadian dollar that day was worth...
...undetected. When the lights are dimmed, killers work together using a sign language of nods and winks to select a victim. The "police" then try to guess their identity, which is confirmed or denied by the judge. When the lights are turned back up, each contestant speaks either to defend themselves or accuse others before a vote eliminates one suspect. In subsequent rounds more players are voted off until no civilians or killers remain. The first to eliminate all members of the other side wins. For decades, Killer provided amusement exclusively to bored children. But in 2004, Chinese Ph.D graduates...
...slated to face Kennesaw State (KSU) Dec. 29, then Georgia Tech and Chicago State in a double-header the next day. These matchups will close out the non-conference portion of Harvard’s season, priming the team for Ivy play, in which the squad will seek to defend the Ancient Eight title starting against Dartmouth less than a week later.Recently, KSU snapped a four game losing streak with a 27-point win over Charleston Southern University in which it posted a season-high shooting percentage of 47.6, a coup for the team that had previously had trouble finding...
...logic of representation. Along with this, of course, Chavez’s authority has certainly grown. And as suggested by a few of the proposed amendments last week, he seems to have every intention of securing greater levels of influence for himself in the foreseeable future. While some Chavistas defend the government by emphasizing the resilience of external and internal obstacles, it remains clear that all this threatens to undermine the laudable ideals animating the Bolivarian Revolution. Moreover, by investing so much of the revolutionary energy in Chavez’s person, the whole process becomes much more vulnerable...