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...post-Saddam government in Baghdad could be expected to favor U.S. companies. Ahmed Chalabi, a leader of the Iraqi National Congress, the most powerful exile group, has met with U.S. oil executives and promised that American oil companies would benefit following a campaign to oust Saddam...
TIME'S story about President Bush's environmental record neglected to report on the consensus in favor of many ambitious Bush Administration initiatives [ENVIRONMENT, Jan. 27]: cutting power-plant pollution 70%, significantly reducing air pollution from diesel engines, a $1 billion program to clean up hazardous waste, $40 billion to fund land and water conservation on America's farmlands, $4.5 billion in tax credits for renewable-energy technology, and a proposal to create the first new wilderness area in more than a decade. You also failed to examine the reasons for the President's Healthy Forests Initiative: the pressing need...
...known as bouchons (also the word for the cork of a wine bottle). His first major act has been to impose new bus and bike lanes on busy boulevards, squeezing out car space and increasing average bus speeds by 3 km/h. Traffic lights in London are being tweaked to favor pedestrians. And Zurich has imposed a zero-sum parking policy: no new garages can be built without first eliminating parking somewhere else in the city. Over the years, several other countries (including the Netherlands and Sweden) have got tantalizingly close to congestion charging, only to abandon the idea when public...
Another moderate change discussed in the book involves U.S. News and World Report’s influential college rankings, which favor colleges with early admissions programs by giving significant weight to yield and selectivity...
Kirkland House Master Tom Conley said he was unsure whether he was in favor of the change, but does not think it will dramatically increase the presence of first-years in Kirkland...