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...state?s global warming strategy is to succeed, however, it must also fend off an auto industry lawsuit to invalidate its landmark 2002 law requiring carmakers to reduce tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gas and cut CO2 emissions for new vehicles by about 30 percent. And if that law were to be invalidated, California officials will face yet a new challenge: finding other ways to ratchet back emissions to meet the new overall limits it has just enacted...
CRIME A SCOURGE RETURNS On a day in late July, photographer Suau captured the promise and peril of life in the resettled city. At top, kids in the Seventh Ward eat ice cream to fend off the summer heat. Just hours later and a few blocks away, a quadruple homicide takes place, sending shock waves through the neighborhood. In the middle photo, Juanita Thomas, aunt to three of the victims, breaks down. In the early morning hours the next day, in the Fifth Ward, National Guardsmen, deployed to help police the city, interrogate a suspected drug dealer. Robbery and homicide...
...busy work and romantic dither. What steals over one as this movie stumbles along - it strikes the poses of comedy, without providing any laughs - is a sadness that it refuses to explore. Its characters all seem to be uprooted, plunked down on a sunny Florida shore and obliged to fend for themselves among estranged strangers, filling the empty days with idle conversations and purely arbitrary social events. To me, frankly, it looks like hell on earth. It also seems to me that, in reality, this emptiness would probably be an invitation to long, gloomy thoughts about mortality and the meaninglessness...
...opened up Pandora's box with little-to-no plans to support their actions." At the same time, there is a danger that Bush's belated embrace of conventional diplomacy will turn out to be a cover for disengagement, at a time when U.S. leadership is still required to fend off civil war in Iraq and deter the ambitions of Iran and North Korea--to say nothing of al-Qaeda. We are witnessing an overhaul of the old Bush Doctrine, but the question is, Can the U.S. find a new one to take its place...
...money," says Joerg-Philipp Frey, an analyst at Bank Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt. "Why should Adidas have to do that? They're better off concentrating on their own brand." To Adidas' Stamminger, two brands offer more leverage than one. Reebok also gives Adidas another weapon that Nike has to fend off. "There's a potential in this market that we are not utilizing at the moment," he says. "And just bringing Reebok back, with the strength they had, that's a huge potential." The company is forecasting $223 million in cost savings and $636 million in additional revenues...