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...exuberant and slightly eccentric Democrats of Colorado--the hosts of the next Democratic National Convention, to be held in Denver in 2008. Each had a big personality and a distinctive personal history. Ritter, for example, was one of 12 children who grew up poor on a wheat farm; in 1986 he and his wife made a midlife decision to spend three years as Catholic missionaries in Africa, working at a nutrition center in Zambia. Then there were the "Salazar Boys." U.S. Senator Ken Salazar and his brother John, a member of Congress, were raised on a ranch without a telephone...
...exuberant and slightly eccentric Democrats of Colorado--the hosts of the next Democratic National Convention, to be held in Denver in 2008. Each had a big personality and a distinctive personal history. Ritter, for example, was one of 12 children who grew up poor on a wheat farm; in 1986 he and his wife made a midlife decision to spend three years as Catholic missionaries in Africa, working at a nutrition center in Zambia. Then there were the "Salazar Boys." U.S. Senator Ken Salazar and his brother John, a member of Congress, were raised on a ranch without a telephone...
...There are concerns that, with a wounded Administration and a new Democratic majority in Congress, it will be harder to get a strong U.S. position. Do you agree? Without doubt, the Administration needs to do some heavy lifting with a Congress it no longer controls and a farm lobby that still has considerable power. Against this, President Bush is a free trader by instinct and wants to do the deal. We need to show that, in fact, it will not cost the U.S. much to cut its subsidies, yet will provide longer-term benefits to the economy. Agriculture is still...
...What are the prospects in Europe, especially in view of coming French elections? Europe is prepared to go further than others in cutting tariffs and farm subsidies, and do more than in any previous trade round. It won't be Europe that allows agriculture to be the sticking point in this negotiation...
...through investments in renewable energy projects. "However many trees we planted around the world, we could not keep up [with global CO2 output]", says Francis Sullivan, the bank's environment adviser. HSBC looks, he says, for more efficient uses of its money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says, "is a distraction." Many green groups agree. In a recent report, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF advised consumers to shun reforestation in favor of projects that "support the transition to non-fossil-fuel-based energy...