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...Rather than passively accepting his fate, Jones, 67, is fighting back. A decade ago, when he and some fellow retirees realized that their pensions didn't include promised cost-of-living increases, they started the Association of BellTel Retirees, one of hundreds of groups of disaffected former employees that have sprung up in the U.S. to lobby for retirement benefits. As president of the BellTel group, Jones uses the Internet and e-mail to send daily newsletters and legislative alerts to the group's 110,000 members. He's also proven himself to be skilled at corporate politics, successfully orchestrating...
...ever accept the Clemenceau. "It is a crime to allow asbestos [into India], and those doing so should be prosecuted," says Ramapati Kumar of Greenpeace India. "We will oppose the Clemenceau's entry to the last." The ship is banned from Indian waters until at least Feb. 13. The fate of the Clemenceau - doomed, perhaps, to sail the seas perpetually like a modern Flying Dutchman - has shed a harsh light on the practice of decommissioning ships. Older vessels, in particular, present a devil's brew of toxins, from asbestos insulation of engines and decks to pcbs, acids and heavy metals...
Listening just to the alarms of abortion-rights groups on the one hand and the cheers of opponents on the other, you could come away with the impression that the fate of Alito's nomination will determine whether abortion remains available in this country. That is not what is at stake. Alito's confirmation would not produce the votes sufficient to overturn the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights throughout the country. And even if Roe is reversed in the future, states will be free to preserve abortion rights, and many almost surely will. Today...
Theorizers, both professional and amateur, think the western helps people to get away from the complexities of modern life and back to the "restful absolutes" of the past ... In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there...
...every street corner." The official says he sent Abbas a memo last week begging him to call off the elections for fear of violence so severe that "there will be no wounded people this time, only dead people." Palestinian sources also told TIME that Abbas was worried about his fate in the elections and exploded at a meeting of top aides last week, saying, "Where is my campaign? I need a campaign...