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...been paid to the costs of pollution or resource degradation engendered by this dramatic economic development. Central government investment in environmental protection remains well below the 2.2% of GDP Chinese scientists claim is the minimum necessary to prevent further deterioration. Pollution fines are so low that factories often elect to pay them rather than take corrective measures. Water is typically priced far below replacement cost, discouraging recycling or conservation...
...Kropfli Golden, Colorado, U.S. The democrats, liberals and their groupies desperately want to discredit the Bush Administration. So all causes, including Iraq, are exploitable for that purpose. But to conclude that most people no longer trust the President is wrong. Americans twice chose to elect Bush. Barbara Schaaf Hollister, Missouri, U.S. Scooter's Fate the indictment of vice president dick Cheney's aide Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice [Nov. 7] was the first breach in the protective wall of lies and deception that has allowed the Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified...
...past Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) suspended its bylaws in order to grant funding to the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), a student group that openly discriminates in its elections of officers. The constitution of the AACF’s parent organization, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, requires that officers “subscribe without reserve” to articles of Christian faith. The UC’s decision was a serious lapse in judgment; funding a group that has a constitutionally-enshrined discrimination policy sets a dangerous precedent for future grant applications.According to an e-mail from Lowell House...
...forward might become less murky after Dec. 15, when Iraqis are scheduled to elect their first full parliament. If the vote proceeds honestly and peacefully, the Bush Administration can claim Iraq has taken a giant step toward political self-sufficiency-a precondition, White House officials have said, for battling the increasingly lethal insurrection. The success of elections will have a direct effect on last week's debate: How many U.S. troops should be in Iraq and for how long? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday that after the elections, the U.S. hopes to drop troop levels from...
...most important problems facing America, Warner said. All three must become Democratic issues, he added. “We as a party have to take back this country,” Warner said. The governor has an 80 percent approval rating in Virginia, a Southern state that usually elects a Republican governor. His speech touched on many areas considered traditionally moderate—or even conservative—territory. He insisted that Americans have to make themselves safer at home and abroad. “Making our ports, airports, and borders safer is an issue,” he said...