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...Senate's recent refusal to ratify an international global warming treaty without the participation of China and other developing countries. "It's just smoke, so they can dodge responsibility for rejecting the treaty by saying 'Everyone else has to go along,' notes Thompson. "But when you're responsible for one-fourth of the world's pollution, a lot of people feel there's some moral responsibility...
...bothered him, the only child of a black American father and a Thai mother, to be called an African American, he replied, "It does. Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian,' " which he explained is a self-crafted acronym that reflects his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth black, one-eighth American Indian, one-fourth Thai and one-fourth Chinese roots with a precision that a racial-classifications expert under South African apartheid would admire. He said that when he was asked to check a box for racial background, he couldn't settle on just one...
...press as an African-American, although he is uncomfortable with this racial classification. On yesterday's "Oprah Winfrey Show," Woods said that it bothers him when people call him an African-American because his background also includes white, Asian and Native American heritage; he is actually only one-fourth black...
...More than 35 million Americans--one out of every seven--are officially poor," he said. "That includes one-fourth of all children and one of every two children of color...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Dole's overwhelming eight-state victory Tuesday convincingly bolstered what had been a lackluster campaign. After adding 199 delegates to the 91 he had won earlier, Dole now has 290 (or more than one-fourth) of the 996 delegates he needs to lock up the nomination. At a Washington rally, a beaming Dole read the roll call of the states that came through for him Tuesday: "Thank you Colorado, thank you Connecticut," said the Kansan as he ran through the list, which included Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Georgia and Maine. Dole's win last night...