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Settling down in a short-term rental--rather than dashing around from hotel to hotel--is gaining ground as a style of travel, says Pauline Kenny, who trademarked the term Slow Travel and runs slowtrav com a website of classified listings and rental reviews. Midlife and older adults don't want to race through six countries in two weeks, checking off a list of must-see sites, says Kenny, 51, who is based in Santa Fe, N.M. Experiencing a country as its residents do offers an attractive alternative...
...high 50s, there is growing impatience with the country's stubborn unemployment and violent crime. Teodoro Petkoff, an erstwhile socialist leader who is a campaign strategist for Chávez's main opponent in the December presidential election, Manuel Rosales, says Chávez's "21st century socialism" is only a short-term fix. "The real fight against poverty is a fight against unemployment," Petkoff says. Others complain that Chávez is a Castro wannabe who has subverted Venezuela's democratic institutions, especially the courts, and may well seek a constitutional change to let him run for a third term...
...Basically, the EPA seems to have decided that a compromise on fine particles is better than no movement at all. The science that short-term exposure to fine particle pollution increases the risk of death and illness from asthma, heart attack and stroke is is so overwhelming that the agency had to take action on that front. But there is enough wiggle room in the long-term data that the agency felt it could leave the annual standards where they...
...analysis (although Bush, in fact, does refer to the media as a “filter†of the news). Instead the type of news found in newspapers, on the radio, and on television can act as a distraction to more important issues. The immense focus on the short-term particulars so rampant in many articles is anathema to Bush’s focus on large blocks of time.Of course, by not picking up a newspaper, the President has stopped himself from picking up a few bad habits, but at the expense of picking up others. By acquiring...
...their destruction will endanger American prisoners of this war and future wars. Furthermore, the Conventions represent moral standards and humanitarian ideals that Americans have long cherished and protected, even with their lives – these should not be cast aside simply for the administration’s short-term convenience.President Bush’s legislation, while at the forefront of current debate, is not the only dangerous proposition. Even more disturbing is a bill currently in the Senate’s Committee on Armed Services. Arlen Specter’s bill, the Unprivileged Combatant Act of 2006, would allow...