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...will buy their crops. This has raised prices for consumers - and created mountains of excess products. Under the new system, payments will be more closely linked to environmental and quality standards, and will be gradually lowered by 20%, with the money saved to be used for rural devel BRITAIN Going to Pot The U.K. government lessened the penalties for being caught using marijuana as part of the biggest shake-up of drug laws in 30 years. Under new rules, police will have greater discretionary powers to issue a warning - rather than to arrest - those caught with small amounts of marijuana...
...Professor Kremer fills a gap in devel- opment economics while Professor Rogoff fills agap in international economics, two areas that arevery popular with the undergraduates," saidWilliamson, who is also Bell professor ofeconomics...
...added, however, that in devel- opments, "there's a transition period in which something isn't there in order to put it back...
Even the report recommending change conceded that its committee was "impressed by the range and variety of programs that have devel- oped under these structures, making Harvard'sinvolvement in public service a source of localpride and national recognition...
...bother? For years, Detroit's Big Three didn't, despite public protests to the contrary (former GM chairman Roger Smith solemnly promised a commercially viable electric car by the mid-1980s). Even in recent years they have devoted less than 2% of their research-and-devel opment budgets to electric and other alternative-fuel vehicles. Admits GM's vice president of advanced engineering Donald Runkle (although something of an electric buff himself): "They're kind of funny and hokey with these strange electric noises, always buzzing, clicking and humming. There was always this image that they were just slow, dumpy...