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...keeping the troops in Bosnia still requires considerable flip-flopping from Bill Clinton. The 1995 mission was renewed for 18 months after the '96 election ? and now Clinton wants Congress to extend it again...
Flora and fauna are showing the impact of a hotter planet too. Animals that thrive in warmer climates, like the Edith's checkerspot butterfly in the American West, have begun to extend their range northward, while cold-loving creatures such as brook trout have vanished in some areas. Plants are pushing to higher latitudes and higher altitudes. Tropical diseases, including malaria and dengue fever, have begun to move into regions that were once too cold for their insect carriers...
Congress has consistently decided to extend MFN status to China, most recently in May. The decision has always invoked heated debate between business interests and labor unions and human right activists...
Esner took President Clinton to task for, in his words, not following up his campaign promises of 1992, when he chastised President Bush for buckling on human rights issues in the face of business leaders who wished to extend China's Most Favored Nation trade status. "If anyone has a memory, I do recall that our president ran on a human rights platform. Where is he now?" she asked...
...players are also looking to extend their tennis careers beyond Harvard...