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Last November the lobby scored a remarkable coup. Buried deep in a bill called the Tax Relief Act of 2005, passed by the Senate on Nov. 18, was Section 559, titled "Modification of Credit for Producing Fuel from a Nonconventional Source...
...contest with just over ten minutes left in regulation, according to the scoreboard as we walked in. Now this is a very important live sports lesson: only visit the restrooms between innings, halves, periods, or sets. You might miss something. Such was my fate as I found bladder relief before my seat; from the sound of the band striking up the fight song as I stood stationed at the urinal I knew the Crimson had potted a go-ahead goal. Something told me, though, that that wouldn’t be the end of it. My karma couldn?...
...Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will tackle many issues at the summit, including tsunami relief, supporting the Afghan government, Iran's nuclear ambitions, returning democracy to Nepal, and containing avian flu. But one of the most crucial items on the agenda is the two nations' impending Nuclear Agreement. Last July, Singh and Bush agreed on the broad outlines of a nuclear deal that would require India to separate its military and civilian nuclear programs. In exchange the U.S. would share nuclear technology with India, whose population now exceeds one billion and whose energy demand has been voracious...
...mass evacuation if state and local officials can?t do so. That means making sure states and locals have (and rehearse) good plans - which must include strategies for dealing with the sick and elderly, whose particular plight after Katrina was one of the most troubling aspects of the relief operations. The report suggests that locals should not get federal disaster money if they have not completed such plans in advance...
...December 2004, the tsunami hit South Asia. It ultimately killed almost 170,000 people and left thousands more without homes. When Datar returned to Harvard shortly after, she says she no longer felt as though she belonged. So she took time off and headed back to India to aid relief efforts. For four months, she lived on the floor of a training center for a local non-profit and spent up to 16 hours a day cranking out grant proposals. Since she’s returned this past fall, she has realized that her experience has affected her in ways...