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...Conlan points out that by continuing a campaign of low-level security threats, dissidents force police resources normally used to tackle fuel and cigarette smuggling and drug dealing - believed to be the main sources of income for dissident groups - to be diverted to anti-terrorism operations: "The [dissident] rationale is to prevent normal policing. Under normal policing, all the criminal activity they have become addicted to and dependent on would have to cease...
...Either way, the car-buyng public is the winner: consumers will see better-built, more fuel-efficient cars and trucks - gas-powered, electrics and hybrids - that will meet their every desire. Obama's challenge is to make sure some of them come from Detroit...
...taxing gas, alcohol, electricity and even trans fats to discourage undesirable behaviors while closing budget gaps. Obama has already hiked taxes on cigarettes and wants to end tax breaks for drilling and offshoring. He seems even more eager to subsidize desirable behaviors like saving, teaching, weatherizing and buying fuel-efficient cars and energy-efficient appliances. Of course, his energy policy goes beyond incentives; he wants a strict national cap on carbon emissions. He has also signaled openness to a national health-insurance mandate. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...panel's predictions will fuel the work of New York's Climate Change Adaptation Task Force - a group of city, state and federal agencies that control vulnerable infrastructure. Though the adaptation plans are in their early stages, the mayor's office is already beginning to prepare the most vulnerable neighborhoods. That puts New York well ahead of any other major metropolis - and certainly the Federal Government - in taking a dead reckoning of the risks of global warming. "They've been quite brave in putting this out there," says Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters. "This...
Could there be a worse time to start an airline? OpenSkies lifted off last June, as the global economy was seizing up. Even though airlines got cost relief via collapsing jet-fuel prices, the deepening recession has caused demand for seats to fall faster than supply could be shrunk. The result: airlines are suffering, as usual...