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...Congress is about to enact yet another doomed energy policy that promises more of the same. Take hydrogen. Ideally, the gas would be extracted from water using fusion technology. But that won't be available for decades. In the interim, a substitute energy source would be used--natural gas. Yes, the same natural gas already in short supply...
...would be unreasonable to expect the administration never to enact policy changes that then seem unwise to undergraduate observers. But it is only fair to expect Kirby to pay attention when those observers make common-sense objections that have simple solutions. As a result of a foolish, avoidable mistake, a perfectly good policy will be overshadowed by the practical mayhem it produces. Too many professors taking leave are going to rain on next year’s parade—and it’s hard not to blame Kirby for ignoring the forecast...
...play is about five Jews who re-enact a Yiddish play, “Dybbuk,” to cope with the suffering in a German ghetto during the Holocaust...
...Zimbabwe The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), won two crucial parliamentary by-elections despite evidence of large-scale vote rigging and intimidation by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. His ruling ZANU-PF party is five seats short of the two-thirds parliamentary majority required to enact constitutional change. Opponents fear Mugabe could change the constitution to appoint his own successor, dumping requirements for an election. Death of a Militant Kashmir Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir shot dead Saif-u-Islam, the chief commander of the powerful Hizbul Mujahideen militant group. Supporters of Hizbul, which is waging...
...board revisited the Riverside neighborhood residents’ re-zoning petition two months after it recommended the City Council enact less drastic changes...