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...Arlen Specter was hearing from constituents in Western Pennsylvania who were going to get shut out of the Steelers-St. Louis Rams game on Dec. 20, critical to the Steelers playoff hopes. In Western Pennsylvania only two things matter in the fall: deer season and the Men of Steel. So Specter shot off little note to Goodell co-authored by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, whose constituents were now faced with the prospect of watching the snow pile up instead of the Pats running it up against the Giants this Saturday. Their message: if the NFL would like to keep...
...just that we need to change the technology of what the engine should be and what should it run on. General Electric is working on that. I've just seen... one of their... engines that are 20% more energy efficient. And we have seen cars. As a matter of fact, a car was delivered to me today. We changed the engine to see how we could make more efficient. It was biodiesel. We took the gas engine out and put the biodiesel engine in. It has more horsepower than it ever had before but it is 50% more energy efficient...
...October of trying to smuggle 103 children out of Chad, the question was never whether they'd be found guilty, but when. Now that a Chadian court has handed down their conviction, the transfer of the six back to France to serve their sentences appears to be just a matter of days or weeks. Mending the damaged relations between France and Chad, however, could take far longer...
...them were Chadian nationals with at least one living parent. Amidst vivid public anger in Chad, French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to N'Djamena in November to secure the release of seven Europeans detained as accomplices in the case and vowed to eventually bring the remainder home "no matter what they may have done...
...have been a number of protests against the proposed expansion, including a violent rally in March that resulted in a man being stoned to death. Despite the study, the President maintains that development created by the sugar plantation would outweigh losses caused by the clearing of forest land, no matter what potential drug discoveries lay within. Conservation is a luxury of rich nations, says Museveni...