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...unacceptable," Florida's Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson, wrote this month to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, adding that it "warrants [the] removal" of one of Kempthorne's top officials. But the Administration insists Nelson and Everglades activists are the ones putting politics over empirical evidence - and at the expense of poorer countries that are trying to save important natural resources more endangered than the Everglades...
Even when conservatives offer a decent health-care idea, the left is suspicious, sensing that the fine print gives poorer, sicker Americans the shaft. For the most part, however, this liberal loathing has been based on instinctive mistrust, with no scientific way to assess GOP indifference--or to separate those Republicans with whom liberals can do business from the hard-hearted monsters they should shun...
...Baghdad and Iraq's other large cities. But the streets were even more deserted than usual Sunday afternoon as Iraqis could not be pried from their TVs. Most fans, facing 120-degree temperatures and confined to their neighborhoods by the vehicle ban, watched at home or with friends. In poorer neighborhoods fans without televisions gathered at tea houses. Emptied of people, the streets were given over to stray cats and dogs. The score was 0-0 at halftime, but fans were optimistic as Iraq controlled the action and had several chances to score...
Foreign aid has long been employed as a political tool, with varying levels of success. Rich economies get to feel good about sharing their wealth with the less fortunate. At the same time, Western nations dole out cash to poorer economies in hopes of encouraging budding democratization efforts. But if anything, Cambodia has continued to backslide. A Hun Sen-backed coup in 1997 removed Co-Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh. Opposition party members are regularly harassed. And a July 2006 deadline imposed by Hun Sen himself for introducing a draft of anti-corruption legislation passed with no evidence...
...curriculum that encourages creativity? In most big cities and their environs, the teachers' unions would rebel. "The teachers' unions want across-the-board raises," says New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, "but we have to create a system where there's a big financial incentive to teach in poorer neighborhoods like Harlem...