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...houses. Meanwhile, there are people who aren't waiting for anybody else to set standards. They have standards of their own. For decades there have been individual homeowners dedicated to incorporating green principles into their custom-designed homes. This is not a mass movement. It's an advance guard, homeowners here and there around the country with both the awareness and the means to build green, a practice that can incur extra costs up front but can pay them back over the longer term in energy savings and other advantages, in addition to its benefits to the wider world...
...major study and overhaul of the system. At the time, about thirteen inmates on Death Row had been found innocent and freed, one more than the number who had been executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977. New reforms adopted included an overhaul in police lineups to guard against false identifications, the videotaping of most murder confessions, some state Supreme Court oversight of capital cases to make sure they are handled fairly and the requirement that criminal defense attorneys be sufficiently qualified to try such cases.(Investigations of Illinois? system revealed that in some death cases, defense attorneys...
...national stage as a House manager in the impeachment of Bill Clinton, but in the Senate he has bucked the Bush White House on its treatment of detainees and no-warrant wiretapping. He's effective, pushing through a bill last year to expand health care for the Guard and the Reserve. But his strength is stepping up to a big moral issue, like how far to go in the war on terrorism, and making his voice heard...
...record of candidate Clinton may be controversial, but in her six short years New York Democratic Senator Clinton, 58, has earned respect from both parties. Assigned to the Armed Services Committee, she has mastered issues like how to retain Guard and Reserve troops, pushed through legislation educating military families on insurance scams and funded measures to help supply flu vaccine. She has also leveraged her national clout to spotlight important terrorism issues with narrow followings--like the vulnerability of nuclear plants...
...simply be turning up. "From a domestic Chinese point of view," says the Carnegie's Pei, "you have not really established your credentials as a leader until you have been received on the south lawn of the White House with all due pomp and ceremony," such as an honor guard and a 21-gun salute...