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...April 15 article in the New York Times Magazine, sees promise in this “geostrategic, geoeconomic” green movement. A testosterone injection will transform the stereotypical environmentalist from effete tree-hugger into gun-toting patriot. Picture it now: Dick Cheney, a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club. And many environmentalists might accept this recasting as well. They recognize that another terrorist attack strikes fear in a way that, say, melting icecaps just don’t. Clean energy, now cast in a muscular light, can be supported by conservatives—and, hopefully, lead to lower...
...wetlands could be classified as isolated, removing them from federal protection. The administration scrapped the proposals at the end of that year in the face of widespread resistance. In 2002, President Bush announced the Clear Skies Initiative, which would allow companies to trade pollution permits. The Sierra Club has said that the plan does not adequately regulate emissions of mercury and nitrogen oxide. The bill is still in committee, though the administration has bypassed Congress by using the EPA to enact some of its provisions. Kerry said that citizens should initiate a new wave of environmental activism...
...hero, death is often only a pause before resurrection. "Some say Pedro Infante still lives," Chavéz writes. "Some say he was killed in the plane crash. Some say the left side of his face was mutilated and that he now lives in hiding (age 87) in the Sierra Nevadas. Some say he was having an affair with the President of Mexico's mistress and the Mexican mafia was after him and he had to go into hiding. ... I just heard from a friend in El Paso that she knows someone with impeccable credentials who has testified for sure...
...Memoirs of a Child Soldier.” Beah, a former child soldier who spoke openly about his experiences at the United Nations First International Children’s Parliament, doesn’t focus on the messy political situation that has led several African nations, including his native Sierra Leone, into intractable civil wars. Rather, his memoir is about understanding the dehumanizing process that leads armies of children to mutual slaughter—a goal made all the more important by the ongoing conflict in places like Darfur. Combining his self-professed skill for remembering images with his ability...
USAGE Though powersharing ended civil wars in El Salvador and South Africa, broken pacts caused civil wars in places like Angola, Lebanon and Sierra Leone. In Palestine, Hamas and Fatah are trying to work together, but can the tactic stabilize Iraq? Perhaps. Don't forget: it took Northern Ireland some 40 years from the start of its Troubles to come even this...