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...appeals court overturned an Environmental Protection Agency regulation requiring that 30 percent of cleaner-burning gas be made up with ethanol, a corn-based oxygen additive that allows fuel to burn with less pollution. Ethanol is considered a more environmentally friendly product than alternative oxygenates butTIME science writer Eugene Lindensays, "This is not an anti-environmental ruling. It only challenges the EPA's right to dictate how those goals are achieved." Farmers had estimated that the required level of ethanol use would bring them up to $1.5 billion, but Linden suggests that there are other ways the government can encourage...
...Stark, a retired cabbie, has a smoking habit that cost taxpayers more than $20,000 last year, and this year the meter is still running. The 53-year-old Miami resident smoked three packs a day for almost four decades; now he has emphysema and needs bottled oxygen to breathe. Medicaid-i.e., taxpayers-foots the bill for his respiratory problems ($400 a month for oxygen, $18,000 for a nine-day hospital stay last year). Despite the tab he's already rung up, Stark still puffs his way through half a pack a day: "I just have this unbelievable...
...being catastrophic [Jan. 23]. The country should never again overvalue its currency and create huge trade deficits, leaving it vulnerable to internal and external forces. However, we should never give in to pessimism. The overvaluation of the Mexican peso has been eliminated, and this step will provide badly needed oxygen for Mexican industry. Inflation will go down again, the exchange rate with the dollar will be adjusted, and Mexican shares will climb to their fair value. The prophets of gloom will once more be proved wrong, because the underpinnings of our economy--human, industrial and commercial--are intact. This society...
...thin above 21 kilometers, you can't use conventional gas engines," says Podolske. "Either you have to 'supercharge' the air, or carry your own liquid oxygen to support combustion...
...forces arrived, a delegation of local dignitaries approached Marine commander Colonel Thomas Jones. "I guess you are the new mayor of Cap Haitien," their spokesman announced. Asked what were the capabilities of the remaining local government in the nearby town of Gonaives, one American captain explained: "They could consume oxygen and occupy space," but not much more...