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...addiction to oil.” Possibilities include a gas tax, increased subsidies for hybrid vehicles, or penalties for gas-guzzling SUVs. With the right economic incentives, consumers would be happy to pull up to the 76 or Mobil station only every other month in 100-mile-per-gallon, plug-in hybrid cars. According to a 2004 report from the Congressional Budget Office, it is estimated that a gasoline tax of 46 cents a gallon, up from today’s federal tax of 18 cents, would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 percent over the next 14 years. We would...
...that their principals have walked into their classrooms and said, 'Stop teaching science,'" says Wheeler. Even teachers who are eager and equipped often face daunting curricular goals--U.S. science texts usually cover many more topics than international ones do. "Compared to the rest of the world, we're a mile wide and an inch deep," says Wheeler...
Another problem has been the tarnished image of science itself. Catchphrases that felt inspiring in the 1950s--"Better living through chemistry," "Atoms for peace"--have a darker connotation today. Du Pont, which invented nylon, became known as well for napalm. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island soured Americans on nuclear power. Shuttle crashes and a defective Hubble telescope made NASA look inept. Substances from DDT to PCBs to ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context...
...Mexican government has denied its military was involved, and its top diplomat even suggested the men could have been Americans wearing Mexican uniforms. But Mexico City has also ordered an investigation, and told all Army units to stay two kilometers, about a mile, back from the border. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is running for reelection, has ordered his own inquiry. "This is not the first such incident," a spokesman for Gov. Perry said, while acknowledging that it is not clear the uniformed men were members of the Mexican Army. Lately Perry has been sounding alarms about the border...
...Sheriff West, like other border sheriffs, patrols a vast area, some 4,500 square miles, with just 12 deputies. There are about 3,000 people in Hudspeth County, 75 percent of them Hispanic with ties on both sides of the "creek," as West calls the often-dry Rio Grande riverbed. But the days when residents went safely back and forth across the county's 90-mile stretch along the Rio Grande are gone, West said...