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Some companies go even further to ensure a clean, green conscience. Green-Tech Assets of Cumberland, R.I., offers a risk-management service to protect clients from liability in cases of improper disposal by third-party contractors. "We're willing to be your firewall," says Green-Tech senior vice president Jim Keck. In the world of e-waste disposal, peace of mind has become a renewable--and marketable--resource...
...race more than just a Senate race? When Democrats think they can score a trifecta by beating a Republican incumbent in the South, hobbling him as a possible presidential candidate and boosting the fortunes of one of their White House wannabes. That's the weighty challenge for novice politician Jim Webb, a decorated Vietnam vet and a senior Pentagon official under Ronald Reagan who is challenging Republican Senator George Allen in Virginia...
...preventable tragedy occurred 28 years ago, in Jonestown, Guyana. Some 900 members of Jim Jones? People?s Temple - souls cleansed, brains washed - took poison and died at his command. Stanley Nelson?s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of People?s Temple interviews survivors and kin of the dead, and has a trove of footage to illuminate, if not explain, the seductive, destructive power of the Temple prophet...
...About Jim Jones, a childhood friend recalled, "There was something not quite right. He was obsessed with religion. He was obsessed with death." But he always had the spellbinder?s gift of bending people to his will, which meshed strangely with his seemingly progressive, inclusive social agenda. Paraphrasing Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Jones proclaimed, "Wherever there are people struggling for justice and righteousness, there am I." One of his early churches, in Indianapolis in 1953, was fully interracial when that wasn?t cool. Moving to California, he established the People?s Temple, which grew from 81 members...
...fixes to high gas prices. "There is not a panacea of short-term solutions to the [gasoline] price situation today because it's a demand-driven price," said House Energy Committee chairman Joe Barton, Republican from Texas, at a news conference Wednesday. House Ways and Means committee member Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana concurred: "I don?t think there?s any magic political solution." And Congressman Adam Putnam of Florida, a member of the House Republican leadership, says that at a bipartisan House and Senate meeting on gas prices with President Bush on Wednesday, all the participants from both parties...