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...citing the Western energy crisis. But regardless of whether regulating carbon dioxide emissions would raise prices for consumers, it would not have a direct effect on California's situation. California's energy is mostly generated from hydropower, nuclear plants and natural gas; coal and oil play a relatively minor role in the state's overall power picture...
...dedication to democracy and human rights will not be mocked and that its agreements with potentially aggressive nations should be strictly enforced in a transparent manner. It would have been a constructive statement of policy--if only Bush had first stopped to remember that the U.S. has only one minor agreement with North Korea and that there is no reason to believe that it is has been violated, as aides later confirmed...
...final frame witnessed excellent early pressure from the Kolarik-Moore-Packard line, but the trio was unable to finish any of its chances. A pair of minor penalties at 10:46 and 11:18 whistled on the brothers Moore forced the Crimson into a precarious five-on-three situation...
...watershed that international prosecutors hoped for. Despite his indictment by the international war-crimes tribunal in the Hague, he will be tried in Belgrade, most probably for abuse of office and other misdeeds rather than for ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and elsewhere. This is not a minor distinction. Local trials do not address responsibility for the worst crimes committed in Europe since World War II, and hence they undermine the landmark U.N.-led effort to hold war criminals accountable under international law regardless of nationality...
Just 15 years later, my parents and my school must seem spectacularly negligent. In the past few years, 17 states have made it a crime to leave a loaded firearm within reach of a minor. And you don't have to bring a gun to school to get suspended. In the post-Columbine era, a fingernail clipper will do, or a pair of scissors, according to a Harvard report released last year on zero-tolerance policies against "weapons...