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When President Bush promised to seek better cooperation from Mexico on the environment and to help supplanted workers, chances for an agreement took a giant step forward. Last week congressional committees endorsed Bush's authority to negotiate a deal that Congress must vote up or down but may not amend. This so-called fast-track authority is crucial, because no country wants to bother hammering out a pact that Congress can then turn inside out. Presuming Bush's negotiators clinch a deal like the recent one with Canada -- and Congress approves it -- North America could achieve a truly open common...
...Nationwide, each of the church's 7,291 elementary schools and 1,296 high schools will be asked to market an array of buttons, T shirts, pins, decals, posters, videos and banners that bear the logo of a proud galleon slicing through the waves, its sail emblazoned with a giant cross. Kits will be sold that instruct local administrators on how to place ads, write press releases and choreograph a month-by-month promotional campaign. Says Sister Ann Dominic Roach, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Boston: "This is not business as usual...
...built on the world's largest cruise ship, capable of handling 5,600 passengers. The floating city, like Epcot, would mix pleasure and pedagogy: alongside the three hotel towers, casinos and villages aboard the nearly quarter-mile-long vessel would be a 100,000-volume library and a giant conference center. At sea or in port, Phoenix World City would be a "place where the best of a civilization converges and cross-fertilizes to produce a fuller way of life," according to a florid brochure...
...walls, a pink rug and large brass giraffes around the altar, she reveals that Disney World holds the secret of her intended comeback. "The spiritual person and the person who wants to have fun, it's the same thing," says Bakker, who helped her husband build Heritage USA, the giant Christian theme park in Fort Mill, S.C., that went under. "When you're in Disney, you have hope that things can be better. And when we know God, there's always hope for a better place, which is of course heaven...
While initial fears that the fires might disrupt the global climate by causing a "nuclear winter" have vanished, some scientists are making new predictions that catastrophic effects could be felt hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles beyond Kuwait's borders. Researchers still have little information about the size of the giant black cloud of oil, gases, soot and smoke being pumped into the atmosphere hour after hour, day after day. But they now fear that what happens to this noxious mass during the next few weeks may affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people...