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...produce a coherent--if unspecified--global-warming policy soon. Environmentalists are fearing the worst. Before Bush's CO2 reversal, the White House created a so-called carbon rump group to reassess the U.S. position on emissions. An Administration official insists that the work the panel is doing is "a high-level, intense review," and while that may be true, it's also a fact that in-house study teams such as this are often simply places where orphan ideas are sent to die. More substantively, Vice President Cheney has been heading up an energy task force that...
...discussions. Despite Bush's clear historical and financial ties to the oil industry, many activists saw grounds for thinking a full break could be avoided. Before the inauguration, soon-to-be Secretary of State Colin Powell had asked Pronk to help push for a delay in the next scheduled high-level meeting on the Kyoto guidelines; Christine Todd Whitman, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, made similar pleas last month at a meeting of G8 environment ministers in Trieste, Italy. The Kyoto guidelines meeting, originally scheduled for Bonn in early June, was postponed to late July to accommodate the new Administration...
...wasn't the only one who saw an opportunity and took it. The Chinese military has been feeling sensitive ever since a high-level officer defected to the U.S. last December. Jiang has forced the People's Liberation Army to withdraw from many of its lucrative business enterprises, though he has tried to raise morale by boosting defense spending 18% this year. But many officers still feel that China has grown too chummy with the U.S. They resent the U.S. surveillance flights along the Chinese coastline?something the U.S. would never tolerate on its borders?and they resent the fact...
Lawrence H. Summers met with high-level University officials for the first time in his capacity as Harvard president-elect yesterday, speaking with University deans and vice presidents on topics ranging from faculty recruitment to the state of science at Harvard during a lunch meeting in Loeb House...
...been broken during their careers, athletes who have doped are often less inhibited about using drugs in normal life than clean athletes or nonathletes." That risk is confirmed by officials at the Monte Cristo Clinic, where 20% of patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction report a background in high-level sports...