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...Rain or shine, few Americans will go to the polls on Election Day in November 2020. Most will vote by modem, telephone or mail -- and overall citizen participation will be much greater than it is today. So will citizen interest, partly because four or five reasonably serious presidential candidates will be on the ballot, along with at least one official referendum and perhaps half a dozen national advisory referendums. Enthusiasm for the democratic process will have reached a point where even Washington should be more popular...
...southeast of the boomtown of Tshikapa in the heart of Zaire's diamond country, the project uses state-of-the-art dredges and diving equipment. Robertson is also exploring gold interests on the upper Zaire, or Congo, River, and assessing the hardwood logging potential of four great swaths of rain forest...
...decision came after environmental activists said that Mitsubishi is responsible for destruction to rain forests around the world...
Jessica S. Hamilton, a Green Corps college coordinator and a member of the Rain Forest Action Network, said a Harvard boycott would capture Mitsubishi's attention...
Grewal said he is skeptical of Mitsubishi'sdenial of harming rain forests. "[Mitsubishi uses]the Food and Agriculture Organization's definitionof deforesting, which is the removal of all treesin an area," he said...