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...Nobel laureate by saying he didn't trust North Korea to live up to the missile agreement Kim has been painstakingly trying to forge with his menacing neighbor. However valid Bush's concern, by expressing it publicly he undercut an ally. Likewise, Bush's abrupt abandonment of the Kyoto global warming treaty, whatever the merits of the decision, provoked a wave of anger across the Atlantic and in a stroke reinvigorated anti-American feeling throughout Europe...
...Some of the newest Japanese technology is being used to boost an old business: selling booze by machine. Prompted by a beverage-industry crackdown on underage drinking, several manufacturers have developed machines that can verify the age of the buyer. Kyoto-based Fujitaka, for instance, has installed sensors clever enough to read the birth date on a driver's license?and savvy enough to recognize a fake ID. Another breakthrough allows machines to send messages directly to maintenance workers, alerting them if a machine needs repair, drinks or snacks?making distribution and upkeep more efficient. Sanyo, meanwhile, has devised...
...maintaining a skeleton, the administration can claim it is holding firm on protections even as it offers concessions to industry. "This is clearly an effort to split the difference," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney. "Bush has taken a lot of flak for his decisions on arsenic and Kyoto, for example. The White House wants very much to show Bush in a greener light, but the President also has a lot of friends who are powerful western governors and members of the logging and mining industry...
...international body - some $580 million in arrears is still tied up in Congress despite an agreement late last year to facilitate payment. The Europeans have been increasingly chagrined by Washington's tendency to ignore the international consensus on issues ranging from the use of land mines to the Kyoto climate change treaty...
John F. Kennedy made it America's objective to put a man on the moon within a decade. Why not a new objective--to make the U.S. energy-independent within a decade, fully complying with the Kyoto Protocol in the process? President Bush has got to have vision! Developing new energy technology with fewer harmful emissions could be the ticket to getting the U.S. economy back on its feet. WALTER NEUMAIER Kirchseeon, Germany...