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...their influence to do great things. But let's not forget that our elected representatives must be the ones held responsible for protecting the poor. Since the government must set a minimum wage for justice's sake, perhaps it can set maximums for corporate profits or individual salaries and offer incentives for the rich to give back. Ralph Scheidler, FORT FAIRFIELD, MAINE...
...April 2007 Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador, made a bold proposal: to permanently forgo excavation of the country's largest untapped oil reserve, located beneath a national park, if the international community would compensate the country for its lost revenue. No one has taken him up on the offer...
...comfort in history. Last time around, a big plus emerged from the pileup: he lost the gold but won the girl. After collapsing in Athens, Emmons retreated to a bar with his buddies. He needed to drown his sorrows. A Czech shooter, Katerina Kurkova, came up to Emmons to offer condolences. "The way he handled that loss seemed very cool to me," Katerina, 24, says. "And I'm not blind. He's pretty cute." They started spending more time together on the shooting circuit and got married last summer...
...wife who told Katie Couric she didn't think Roe should be overturned). He talked about promoting a "culture of life" but didn't get down in the weeds about when exactly that life started. McCain enjoys no such benefit of the doubt, and so he had to offer blunt reassurance. But his construction of human rights beginning "at the moment of conception," while theoretically clean, is a practical mess. It throws the entire weight of argument onto one side of the scale; a woman, whose womb and RNA are essential to the development of a fertilized egg, would...
...whom are invited to bid on eight major oil and gas projects Iraq wants to launch next year. The goal is to get Iraq, currently producing about 2 million bbl. a day, pumping up to 3 million by the end of 2009. The eight oil projects on offer to outside companies chiefly involve refurbishing and developing various oil and gas fields in southern Iraq. American and Iraqi officials say the projects can go forward without passage of a long-delayed national oil law, as long as each contract individually is approved by the Iraqi government and endorsed by the parliament...