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...Meyer Takes the Helm...
...fans turned off by the superslick pop sound that Nashville has been peddling in recent years. The band members earned their right to be playful with the form by becoming some of the best players around. They learned their tricks from "newgrass" innovators such as Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, then went off in search of even sweeter harmonies and trickier licks. Now success is arriving faster than the Orange Blossom Special. Nickel Creek's video, When You Come Back Down, is in heavy rotation on CMT, and its eponymous debut album cracked the Billboard country Top 20 and earned...
...This week another European delegation heads for Washington to get a readout on what Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists called "the most anti-environmental act by an American President in modern history." By the time they arrive, the Bush Administration will at least have had plenty of practice -if scant success -in explaining its position. Last week German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who governs in a coalition with the environmentalist Greens, was there to air his differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk...
...Neill embarrassed and Whitman downright humiliated. Bush consoled her with an invitation to Camp David last weekend, shortly after she issued a wan statement declaring her own about-face on the issue. But European leaders who had accepted her assurances were furious, sources tell TIME. British Ambassador Christopher Meyer complained to Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby. And Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson, in a call with Bush on Friday, wanted to know whether he was going to take global warming seriously...
...growing number of corporations, from IBM to your neighborhood Kinko's, are reducing their greenhouse footprints. DuPont is pledging to knock its emissions 65% below 1990 levels by 2010. "There's been a shift in the center of gravity in the U.S. corporate community since Kyoto," says Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Now the view is that climate change is serious and we ought to do something about...