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Despite the e-mail controversy, however, momentum on climate-change action is still building. Environmentalists are feeling increasingly hopeful that the Copenhagen summit could produce concrete action on emissions cuts, with U.S. President Barack Obama changing his schedule to arrive on the final day of negotiations. "The clock has ticked down to zero," said the U.N.'s climate chief Yvo de Boer on the first day of the talks. "After two years of negotiation, the time has come to deliver." There's nothing invented about that urgency...
Jackson's announcement was the final step in a response that has been nearly three years in the making - since April 2007, when the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Clean Air Act gives the EPA the authority to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases, if they are indeed a threat to human health and welfare. At the time, the court directed the agency to review the latest science on climate change in order to make a determination...
...Still, that didn't stop Hershey's Reese's Pieces stealing the category for confectionary in the round. In the fourth and final group - filled chocolates - Fry's Peppermint Cream, part of the Cadbury family, comfortably beat all-comers. (Read: "Despite Two Rebuffs, Kraft Is Still Sweet on Cadbury...
Quotes By: "They say that I am calm. I am not calm ... I fear to lose myself, to have the mask of the assassin forced upon me." - While taking the stand for the final time at her trial in Italy...
...legislative agenda is yet another gargantuan conflict of interest to add to those related to his ownership of Italy's main private television stations. But by now, Sartori says, Berlusconi's lawyers have perfected the art of exploiting Italy's painfully slow justice system: many cases conclude without a final verdict because the statute of limitations has been reached. "It is more a mania than a necessity," Sartori says of Berlusconi's near obsession in battling magistrates. "He feels persecuted, and fighting the judges is what makes him happy...