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...with the less than sunny atmosphere. The latest summit meeting place, a French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better. A minority have vowed to shut down the meeting...
...Harvard Square was occupied by establishments like the Tasty, a 70-year-old burger joint that served up floats, fries and friendliness at all hours of the night. Yet, the Tasty has been closed for almost four years now, replaced by a renovated shopping complex that serves PacSun skater gear to spike-haired boys who hang in the pit and A&F posters to pre-pubescent girls on their way home from CRLS. High rents and corporate expansions have effaced a once student friendly neighborhood, replacing locally owned businesses loyal to the College crowd, with impersonal retail chains, office space...
...plan," which assigns each crew member a sensitive part of the plane to demolish. Some of the steps--erasing computer hard drives that recorded the day's mission--were manageable even if the plane's violent rocking kept the crew strapped into their seats. But the most sophisticated eavesdropping gear was supposed to be destroyed in order to be saved, smashed with hammers and hatchets or stuffed into weighted bags and dumped out of the plane's cargo doors. Once the plane managed to land safely, there could be one last chance to cram secret papers into special containers...
...pledge to restrict carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired electric-utility plants, despite widespread scientific agreement that such emissions contribute to global warming [NATION, March 26]. By doing so, Bush also broke another promise--his pledge to restore honesty and integrity to the office of the President. SUZANNE DYER-GEAR Westminster...
...Pentagon: Good losers A plane chock-full of top-of-the-line intelligence gear remains in Chinese hands, and 24 U.S. personnel spent 11 days as unwilling "guests" of Beijing after being bumped in international airspace by a Chinese fighter. The crew may have destroyed many of the plane's most vital secrets, but its loss (though it may yet come back in Ziploc bags) was still a setback, and the military had little option but to sit on its hands while the diplomats crafted a humble not-quite-apology when the Pentagon was more inclined to believe the Chinese...