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...barring development around Lake Tahoe. But while working for the first Bush Administration, Roberts helped persuade the Supreme Court in two cases to narrow the grounds on which environmental groups could sue the Federal Government. What has the greens most worried is a dissent filed by Roberts on a request for a rehearing by a California real estate developer in a case involving the threatened arroyo toad, protected under the Endangered Species Act. Roberts argued that the plaintiffs should at least be granted a second hearing by the full court because the Constitution's commerce clause, which says Congress...
...money, and Japan's occupation government, after repeated pleas from Hiroshima, finally agreed to permit special national subsidies to badly damaged cities as long as they had a reasonable reconstruction plan. Hiroshima International University planning professor Norioki Ishimaru says parliamentarians from Hiroshima were smart enough to know that their request could not come "with an accusing tone," lest they be turned down by General Douglas MacArthur's occupation headquarters in Tokyo...
...much does China spend on defense? The only consensus among foreign observers is that China spends more than it says it does. The official budget for 2005 is about $29.9 billion, a 13% increase from the previous year. (The Pentagon's budget request is $401.7 billion for this year, up 7% from 2004.) The U.S. report says Beijing's actual defense spending could be two or three times higher than the official number. If China spent $90 billion, the high side of Pentagon estimates, it would be the third biggest military spender in the world after the U.S. and Russia...
Their dreams aren't dead yet. But some Wall Street analysts wonder whether the moguls need to hire a new CEO, a role Geffen took on at investors' request. Spielberg just wants to make movies; Katzenberg is CEO of the publicly traded animation company, which remains majority owned by DreamWorks' founders and early investors. Success has been spotty on all fronts. DreamWorks never built the studio complex it had planned and gave up on its TV, record and Internet ambitions. Its animated movies--other than the Shrek franchise--have been unspectacular. "Probably our eyes were bigger than our stomachs," Geffen...