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...McCain would not accept. The fossil-fuel industries want them given away. Lieberman-Warner uses a mix of giveaway and auction, a seemingly fair approach but one that has split enviros--some of whom see the bill as weak. Industry is ambivalent too. The National Association of Manufacturers is dug in against the bill. A large and growing number of corporations know that a cap is inevitable, though few have come out in favor of Lieberman-Warner. And all this leaves unanswered the problem of how to ensure that carbon-constrained U.S. businesses aren't hurt in global trade...
...sudden fit of passion, she clutched the rotting reptile to her breast. “I want to feel,” she gasped, as the gems’ cold facets dug into her yielding flesh. “I need to feel again...
...After Ann's death, her daughter dug through her artifacts, searching for Ann's story. "She always did want to write a memoir," Soetoro-Ng says. Finally, she discovered the start of a life story, but it was less than two pages. She never found anything more. Maybe Ann had run out of time, or maybe the chemotherapy had worn her out. "I don't know. Maybe she felt overwhelmed," says Soetoro-Ng, "because there was so much to tell."-With reporting by Zamira Loebis and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta...
...more hits,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said. “Once we got on a roll, we stayed on a roll for a while.”Harvard’s pitching faced some difficulty handling the conditions, walking a total of seven batters but dug in to strike out seven. Entering in the fifth inning in relief of senior Amanda Watkins with two on and no out, Madick struck out the side, leaving the bases loaded.Sophomore Margaux Black held the Lions scoreless in her two-frame appearance. The Crimson defense backed up the effort...
...credit. Retired meteorologist Len van Burgel's task was to provide wind data from that long-ago November to help trace where debris from the Kormoran, found drifting days after the battle, could have come from. With no ocean wind reports available from that time, van Burgel dug through archives and extrapolated from land weather charts, then used computers and satellite imagery to model 1941 conditions. When the three approaches yielded similar results, he says, "we thought we were on to a good thing." Drift specialists could then identify where the German ship was likely to be. "And David [Mearns...