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...bomber, is evaporating in multicolored smoke. While bearing witness to events, he remained possessed by the English countryside, recording over and over again the wooded hilltops outside Oxford known as the Wittenham Clumps - the Nashes had moved here to avoid bombs. He uses pulsatingly vivid colors, reflecting the heat and white nights of summer, in paintings like Landscape of the Summer Solstice (1943). Under the crouching trees, the focal point is a menacing dandelion. The implicit dread is more than merely romantic - imagine a soundtrack of German bombers. Dogged for years by severe asthma, Nash died in 1946 of pneumonia...
...NATURAL GAS: THE CONGRESSIONAL FLIP-FLOP. A quarter-century ago, Congress enacted the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, which banned after 1990 the burning of natural gas by power plants to generate electricity. The reasoning: because that fuel was in short supply and was most widely used to heat homes--it goes to half of all residences--it should be preserved for that purpose. Pete Domenici, the Republican Senator from New Mexico, told his colleagues that year, "Almost since we found natural gas we have been busy finding ways to abuse it, waste it, literally throw it away...
...with the country importing 6 million bbl. of crude oil and petroleum products daily, President Nixon pledged that by virtue of his Project Independence "in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving." He advanced a catalog of energy proposals that covered everything from drilling on the outer continental shelf to building more nuclear power plants, from expanding the use of coal to conducting research on potential new sources. In the end it didn...
...full protections of a U.S. court. "Guantanamo is bad enough," says a British official, "but the worst thing is that we fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq and suffered casualties, and in the aftermath [U.S.] citizens are treated differently." In the House of Commons, Blair has taken heat from all sides. "Put your foot down, Prime Minister!" urged an M.P. of his own party...
...Most of Chek Lap Kok's vantage points are at ground level, and it is difficult to get a close view of the aircraft because of the high-security double fencing that surrounds the airport. There is also heat haze to contend with...