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...math tests and all AP exams scheduled for this week have been postponed to next week, according to Johnson’s letter. Additionally, the school’s junior prom, which was scheduled for this Friday, has been postponed “indefinitely,” said BLS senior Gloria T. Chin. She added that the seniors were supposed to end school this Friday, but they will now not finish school until the following week. While Chin said she thought closing the school was “a smart thing to do,” not all students agreed...
...saving the equivalent of some 1.8 billion barrels of oil, it also raises hopes that the Obama Administration will be able to forge a compromise on the tricky matter of a national cap on greenhouse-gas emissions. "It's an enormous breakthrough for national legislation," says Vickie Patton, a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund. "It ends years of polarization on extraordinarily difficult issues and leaves us with a sense of progress." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...m.p.g., and trucks will need to get 30 m.p.g. - roughly 30% more fuel-efficiency than they get today. "The ramp up will be a different path than California's, but it's a national program, so you'll get emissions reductions at a rate higher than California," says a senior White House official, who provided a background briefing on the condition of anonymity...
...years, Susi shared her space at the zoo with another African elephant, a few years her senior, named Alicia. When Alicia died in February 2008, the loss came as a blow, according to the animal-welfare organizations Libera and the Foundation for the Adoption, Sponsorship and Defense of Animals (FAADA). "She's living in 1,000 square meters of concrete, which are not proper conditions for an elephant," says Alejandra Garcia, spokesperson for the Free Susi campaign. "But as long as she had Alicia she was more or less O.K. Now, though, she's apathetic, her trunk hangs...
...Although Cameron's response to the public outrage has been deft, his own party has suffered collateral damage. He lost his senior adviser, Andrew MacKay, over revelations that MacKay and his MP wife submitted overlapping claims for their housing. Tory grandee Douglas Hogg announced today that he will stand down at the next election, after billing the public purse for maintenance of his moated Lincolnshire mansion. And there's evidence that all three main parties - Labour, Conservatives (Tory) and Liberal Democrats - could feel the backlash against Westminster's culture of venality at the European and local elections scheduled for June...