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Vow-takers will begin their silence at 9 a.m., meet in Adams House for a Silent Luncheon from 12-2 p.m., and end their pledge with a Break the Silence Rally in front of the Science Center at 5 p.m.
The reaction revealed a trait Europeans have long considered a quintessentially American attribute: political naiveté. It seems pretty obvious now that a Texas oilman with a proven aversion to antipollution regulation and a firm grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a...
Whatever the causes, anti-smoking advocates, including HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and Surgeon General David Satcher, pledge to refocus energy and resources on fighting what Satcher terms "the epidemic" of female smoking and smoking deaths. Women's health organizations won't be far behind: This is one arena, after all...
Why reverse a campaign promise to restrict emissions? Keeping the pledge might cost billions. Bush says the promise was just a big mistake. So is global warming.
President Bush energetically ignored that advice when he did a U-turn on his campaign pledge to control carbon dioxide from power plants. His questioning of the science behind global warming didn't do much to overcome the administration's credibility problem, either. After a series of reports issued by...