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Being an environmental activist in China "is sometimes very lonely work," says Wen Bo. The nation's cities choke with smog and many rivers are putrid, yet "people in China just don't think there's a need to protect the environment. Even when I was a student putting up posters for a campus environmental group, people would look at me strangely. They couldn't understand the need for a club that wasn't for Ping-Pong or photography...
...involved in this," says Mahoney. "But trust in government is a genuine issue here. We need to have the Speaker [of the House] and the House leadership address this, from the perspective of parents and not politicians - and if we find out there were calculated decisions made to protect seats and power, then the chips need to fall where they...
...have been very challenging and confusing for the human rights community because Bush has advanced his agenda under the guise and in the language of defending human rights,” Schulz said. “The war in Iraq is descended in the name of humanitarian intervention to protect the world from Saddam and protect the Iraqi people, yet at the same time the world, even the U.S., ignores the true need for humanitarian intervention in Darfur...
...work against child sex offenders is certainly the most glaring irony of the emerging Foley scandal. Foley is a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and has played key roles in recent legislation to protect kids, including the Volunteers for Children Act, which gives organizations that work with youths access to FBI fingerprint checks to make sure they don't hire child molesters. Foley's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which has passed both the House and Senate, overhauls the national monitoring system for predatory pedophiles by closing legal loopholes, setting minimum...
...journey now heading to the gym - what school like for you this year?" As a result, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning congressional watchdog group, has asked the House Committee on Standards and Official Conduct to investigate, saying the legislators have "an obligation to protect the teenagers who come to Congress to learn about the legislative process." The committee, it said, "must investigate any allegation that a page has been subjected to sexual advances by members of the House...