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The House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month largely on the promise of an important number. To win moderates in their party, Republicans added an amendment limiting drilling to just 2,000 of the park's 1.5 million acres. But it turns out...
The turning point, in fact, came not in August but in January of1991, when Soviet tanks moved into Vilnius in a bloody but unsuccessful effort to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. There I saw soldiers take over the country's main TV tower, waving to us as they raced to...
Meanwhile, Bush was satisfying his Republican shock troops in the West, and antagonizing greens, with this week's House approval of his plan to drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. So there was little cost in offering a nod to environmentalists in the East, and what more...
Congress loves to play fast and loose with numbers, particularly when one side or the other is using them to justify a bill. Two such cases came earlier this month, when the House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are a total of 19 million...
With U.S production at nearly a 50-year low and oil reserves in this country shrinking, George Bush has made ANWR's development a key part of his energy package. The House finally decided to approve drilling in the refuge, largely on the promise of two important numbers. First, to...