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...political energy that other fuels can't match. It's plentiful in the political-battleground states of the Midwest and Southeast. West Virginia, the capital of coal, provided Bush his margin of victory in electoral votes and marked a G.O.P. breakthrough. Sources tell TIME that White House political director Ken Mehlman cited Bush's victory in that Democratic presidential stronghold as a reason why he should renounce a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, a major coal pollutant. "The current political climate is the best we've seen in many years," says a major coal-company lobbyist...
...room for the next five minutes, their song “Smokewood” blazing from every scorching hot speaker. Involuntarily, I found myself grooving to the music, and I soon saw I wasn’t alone. Jumping, jiving and thrashing about with genuine, inspired abandon, Nullset frontman Ken Smith led the band in a musically cathartic scream of rage that seemed to tear out his vocal cords. Honest to God, I could feel my blood bouncing and internal organs being rearranged by the raw power in “Smokewood,” and I loved every second...
...that, virtually everyone agrees that the hardest work still lies ahead on a bewildering array of issues beyond the ken of most laypeople. And before the deals are reached - with four years to go before the FTAA deadline - uncertainty reigns. Hence the focus on disagreements, many of them vague and obscure, between the main regional trading blocs: NAFTA (total gross domestic product: $8.8 trillion) and Mercosur (total GDP: $1 trillion). The main anxiety is all too clear: fear of economic domination. In a hemispheric free-trade zone that includes the U.S., Canada and Mexico, predicts Josmar Verilla, vice president...
...these giant gambles," says Ken Binmore, a University College London economist who helped design the British auction. "If 3G is worth anything, it is going to be worth immense amounts, but who knows if it will be worth anything?" Binmore - who is delighted with how the auction turned out for British taxpayers - adds that the telecom operators understood this risk going in. If anything, the technological prospects for 3G were even more doubtful a year ago. The big difference between then and now isn't the technology. It's the NASDAQ...
...giant Shell in New York. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the company must face a suit that alleges it took land without paying proper compensation, polluted the environment and paid local police to suppress opposition. The suit also alleges that Shell companies fabricated evidence against activists Ken Saro-Wiwa and John Kpuinen, who were hanged...