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...withdrew, citing "previous time commitments," according to a copy of his letter to Baker provided to TIME by John B. Williams, Baker's policy assistant. Giuliani recently said he resigned because he was considering running for office and it didn't seem right to stay on such an "apolitical" panel. Staffers on the commission say they don't remember that coming...
...collapse. With 59 seats in India's 552-member lower house of Parliament, the leftists, including the powerful Communist Party of India (Marxist), have been a significant outside partner in the ruling Congress Party-led coalition. On Monday, the leftists accepted Singh's offer to set up an expert panel to study the agreement. But they insisted the government must first stop negotiations with the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which governs matters of nuclear trade, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose blessings are necessary to make the deal a reality...
...Airplanes operate on petroleum fuel, which means they release large amounts of carbon dioxide when they fly. Commercial air travel is currently responsible for a relatively tiny part of the global carbon footprint -just 3.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But the unique chemistry of high-altitude jet emissions may produce an additional warming effect, while the explosive growth in air travel makes it one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon gases in the atmosphere. And unlike energy or automobiles, where carbon-free or lower-carbon alternatives already exist, even...
Prior to his decision to not run for reelection, Michael Sullivan had come under some fire for holding both the clerk and the city council position. A state judicial ethics panel ruled that holding both jobs simultaneously was “problematic” because, as of last December, 13 cases involving Cambridge were pending in the Middlesex courts...
...state panel in Virginia continues to investigate the fatal shootings at Virginia Tech, university and local mental health officials have been arguing over who's to blame for not making sure Cho Seung-Hui, the troubled student who shot and killed 32 people before killing himself on April 16, received the outpatient psychiatric treatment a judge had ordered for him in 2005. The campus massacre also prompted colleges around the country to look for weaknesses in their own mental health programs. Since then, one thing has become clear: there is widespread confusion about whether federal privacy laws prevent school mental...