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...summer pain, comes down to U.S. refineries - refinery fires, refinery maintenance, whether refineries can run at full capacity until October - not sympathy (or lack thereof) from Washington. As far as the Bush team is concerned, tinkering with the markets now (which are only responding to those "eight years of neglect" from that Clinton guy) is not only futile, it's un-American. Same goes for capping electricity prices...
...neglect or not, Americans got used to plenty of quick-fix sympathy from Big Bad Bill, whether it was tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dispatching Bill Richardson to roam the desert to lean on OPEC or just a lot of lip-biting over prices at the pump...
...Communist Party. Lai Nilang, 19, slaps the scarred stump of his right arm, crushed four days into his job in a computer-chip factory. "The government doesn't care about us, only money," he murmurs. "People hate them." Zhou looks at his young client, gauging his loathing. "If you neglect the people, then the balance of society is upset. It's a very dangerous situation...
...global governmental neglect behind those numbers is "the most critical failure of the 20th century" and the major challenge for the 21st, contends Peter Gleick, one of the world's leading experts on freshwater resources. "Governments, ngos and local communities must address this problem first - as their top priority," says Gleick, director of the California-based Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security. "There are many tools for doing so, and the economic costs are not high compared to the costs of failing to meet these needs...
...Daria” is an insightful, ironic dissection of high school culture and its victims. Its consistent quality has been one of the few positive constants in the networks programming over the past few years (you’ll forgive me if I neglect to praise “Say What? Karaoke?...