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...power become feasible. Richard Budge, ceo of British coal company Powerfuel, says that "a reaffirmation of coal" is under way. Indeed, the British government last week released a report acknowledging that coal will continue providing a third of the country's electricity well into the future. A big factor is demand: global consumption of electricity is expected to double between 2002 and 2030. "World gas resources are not sufficient to meet the world's demand for energy. It can only be done with coal," insists Martin May, spokesman for Swedish power company Vattenfall. Not that coal ever exactly disappeared. During...
...result of this diplomatic vacuum, the only factor constraining the behavior of the various parties has been their mutual fear. Israel has been worried that Hizballah might launch Katyusha rockets on Haifa, Syria that Israel might wipe out its army or regime, Hamas and Hizballah that their entire leadership could become fair game. But such apprehension always was at most a feeble restraint, because in an unregulated environment, the only thing more costly than disregarding one's fears is displaying them. In the past weeks, that last and flimsy inhibition finally gave way. The conflict no longer is about achieving...
...place. Another difficulty is youth: three-term senators are, reasonably enough, often reluctant to solicit advice from college students and recent grads. Our influence as interns may not be commensurate with our efforts—but it might well be appropriate given our experience.There is, however, a third factor at play, and I think it deserves the greater part of the credit for our lack of political force. We just don’t want it badly enough. College-educated interns rarely take a $7,200 excursion into politics so they can push issues at personal risk; we are here...
...South Carolina is struggling to hold its traditional importance as a key state in the first round of primaries to follow New Hampshire. Now it is competing against Alabama for that spot. While South Carolina offers a strong African-American contingent, Alabama has more union members, another key factor in the decision-making at the DNC. But even if South Carolina wins, it will suffer a loss under the new schedule, since it will now follow the new southwestern primary...
...refrain from test firing the missiles, they may be unlikely to translate their pique into punitive action. Both countries fear that if the regime is pressed to the wall, it could launch a cataclysmic confrontation. And even the potential collapse of the regime is feared as a dangerous destabilizing factor by its both neighbors...