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...Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which monitors chemical and biological weapons. Once the inspectors enter Iraq, they need to set up transportation, communications, laboratories and radios and hire interpreters and local staff. Under current rules, the inspectors then have 60 days to draw up a "work program" outlining the sites they intend to check. Last week Blix indicated that the U.N. is willing to conduct a few unannounced inspections, a move the White House had been pressing for as "an early test" of Iraq's willingness to cooperate...
...sent a terse get-lost note to Burk and then issued an incendiary press release asserting that Augusta would not be "bullied, threatened or intimidated" by the NCWO, which represents such groups as the American Nurses Association and the League of Women Voters. "We do not intend to become a trophy in their display case," Johnson declaimed. Then, in an unprecedented move, he booted the Masters' sponsors--Citigroup, Coca-Cola and IBM--so the companies wouldn't face criticism by association. The commercial-free move will cost the club some $7 million in forgone revenues...
...damage being done is more than aesthetic. Many vanishing species provide humans with both food and medicine. What's more, once you start tearing out swaths of ecosystem, you upset the existing balance in ways that harm even areas you didn't intend to touch. Environmentalists have said this for decades, and now that many of them have tempered ecological absolutism with developmental realism, more people are listening...
...intend to defend our intellectual property rights,” said Christopher Burt, a spokesperson for the Seattle-based private company N2H2, which sells software to many state and local governments for use in libraries and schools...
...quite committed to the subject and to the work going on in Europe,” Bebchuk said. “I intend to be an active participant...