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...bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial park here, just a few farmers. This is it, our guide informs us. We peer into the distance at a hazy outline of blue factory sheds shimmering like a mirage on the horizon. "You see that building over there under the mountain?" asks our guide. Can we get any closer? No, comes the curt reply, "that area is banned from others...
...hope the Bush Administration does not use this crisis the way it used 9/11?as an excuse to consolidate even more power in the hands of the right-wing corporate ? lite. We must reverse the trend of allowing corporations to set our national policy. Allen L. Wenger Mountain Home, Idaho...
NAMED. TAI SHAN ("Peaceful Mountain"), the panda, now 13 lbs., born in July to Tian Tian and Mei Xiang at the National Zoo; in Washington. The choice was made in an online poll by more than 200,000 votes...
...same time, oil companies, worried that these changes could leave them behind, are starting to think of themselves instead as broad-based energy companies. "Shell and BP are already headed in that direction," says Amory Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank that advocates a radical restructuring of the energy economy. Shell has become the largest seller of biofuels, he says: "We're talking about new processes for turning woody, weedy plants like switch grass and poplar--also crop waste like wheat straw--into cellulosic ethanol...
...Bears, though, that Dawson was first hindered by an injury, leaving the field for a spate in the first quarter with a slight hip bruise.It was the start of a downward trend. The next week against Lehigh, Dawson was held to 59 yards on 15 carries as the Mountain Hawks stacked the box to contain him. He missed much of the first and fourth quarters, and after the game, Harvard coach Tim Murphy would call his tailback’s health at “85-90 percent.” The low point was Cornell, in which a wounded...