Word: journeys
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...Webb is a natural-born provocateur and a human harbinger. His political journey predicted the switch of working-class white people to the Republicans 30 years ago, and in 2006 he became the first prominent Republican - he served as Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan - to switch to the Democrats and run for high office, and win. He is also a terrific writer, of both fiction and fact. His preceding nonfiction book, about his Scots-Irish ancestors, was called Born Fighting, and I imagine if there's a sequel to A Time to Fight, it will be called...
...Equally galling to the anti-dam campaigners is the secrecy that has surrounded the decision. Details of the plans have not been made public, and the environmental assessments ordered by Wen have not been released. Because the Nu is an international river - it flows into Burma on its southward journey to the Andaman Sea - development plans fall under state secrecy laws...
...many greens demanded. And it was complicated, even bloated - it would have raised $6.7 trillion over 40 years by auctioning global warming pollution permits, using great gobs of that money to buy off various interest groups. But it was significant just the same, because its six-month-long journey from environment and public works committee to Senate floor helped force some reluctant Senators to begin thinking seriously about the issue. Boxer calls the result "a road map [for] the next President, so he knows where are the consensus areas and where are the difficult areas...
...Your experience of globalization, then, depends on what you have in the bank. In business class, the world is your village, and you're connected with your counterparts from all corners. For those whose journey involves a long truck ride through a desert or a dangerous boat ride across open sea, globalization is often much less forgiving. Millions of people every year seek to migrate, legally and illegally, from poor countries, either to the industrialized world or to more prosperous developing countries such as South Africa. But the poor in the developing world are determined not to diminish the little...
...Texas The Long Journey Home On June 2, a district judge ordered the return of nearly 460 children to a polygamist sect's care after a state supreme court ruled in its favor. But Child Protective Services and the Attorney General will continue investigations into alleged sexual abuse on the sect's Yearning for Zion ranch. Though no charges have been filed, families cannot leave the state...