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...population will face water shortages due to climate change, urbanization and population growth, according to a recent JP Morgan report. Marc Levinson, lead author of the report, says businesses that don't address looming shortages run the risk of plant closures, water rationing and sullied reputations. "There's a major risk of being punished by customers," he says. "These are real business risks. This is not something far off in the future...
...civil libertarians, human rights activists and lawyers who have been challenging the Bush Administration's stance on Guantánamo for years hailed the Supreme Court decision as a major step forward. "The court has brought the Constitution home from exile," said Professor Eric M. Freedman, Maurice Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra and a longtime adviser to lawyers representing prisoners at Guantánamo. "Everyone who believes that America is a country devoted to the rule of law should celebrate because this ruling says that the Executive needs to be accountable to a neutral judicial forum...
...decision marked the fourth major legal defeat for the Bush Administration on the issue of rights for foreign detainees, as the court rejected arguments that protections provided by the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 adequately safeguard the rights of prisoners designated "unlawful enemy combatants" by the Administration...
...Although the military still doesn't trust Democrats, the careless and incompetent use of the troops in Iraq by the Bush Administration has caused a pervasive sense of disgust in the ranks, which may be why, Webb writes, a majority of the veterans running for Congress in 2006 did so as Democrats. In 2008 there are real opportunities for Democrats to gain the trust and support of military families, but only if they make a more sophisticated effort to celebrate the service the troops perform. Webb has led them along that path by proposing a GI bill that some Republicans...
...Robert Scales, a retired Army major general, suggests that having a military officer on the ticket is a mixed blessing. "The great strength of a military guy would be credibility on national security," says Scales, a military historian and former commandant of the Army War College. "The great weakness is that he lacks any type of regional attraction, which, to my mind, is really the primary purpose in picking a running mate." Indeed, military officers often move every three or four years, essentially making them political transients...