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...funding for the Synthetic Fuels Corporation, which has financed several large-scale projects. The bill provides only $500 million for a Department of Energy program of synfuels research. The Senate is expected to pass a similar measure. As Congress has grown increasingly skeptical of synfuels, so too has the DOE. Last month it decided to withdraw $1.4 billion in aid to Great Plains. As a result, the plant's private consortium of owners announced that it was pulling out of the project...
Great Plains is now under the control of the DOE. Last week the department sent a team of investigators to inspect Great Plains and confer with plant managers. Some employees hoped the Government would find a way to keep the project running. Said Michael Mujadin, the operations director: "Once they see things for themselves, I'm confident the DOE will let us continue." But that may prove impossible if Congress decides to cut off synfuels funding...
...human rights group EarthRights International brought Unocal to federal court in Los Angeles on behalf of Burmese villagers suffering from the alleged violations during pipeline construction, which ended in 1998. The suit, Doe v. Unocal, was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, a 1789 law that allows aliens to sue in U.S. courts for violations of international law. The group pursued a separate suit in California state court...
...appearance of doe-eyed shock at some of the more vitriolic statements Hitler makes in his last days is perhaps one of the least plausible elements of the film (he has, after all, been dictating notes and speeches to her for more than two years). However, it is also part of what makes the ethical problems interesting...
...Recently, I wrote you a letter objecting to your use of "&" instead of "and" and referring to such couplets as "hands & feet," "room & board," "John Doe & wife." I note your reply in the current issue that you use this grotesque abbreviation to conserve space...