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Rogers said she never earned more than $35,000 a year as an environmental activist in Texas. She directed a group fighting against a nuclear waste dump on the Mexican border, and later worked for the state chapter of the Sierra Club...
...intend to pass it.? Taylor Targeted LIBERIA The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, who fled to exile in Nigeria in August 2003. Taylor faces war-crimes charges at the U.N.-backed tribunal for Liberia , whose opening in Sierra Leone was marred by allegations of bias lodged against the presiding judge. Charge Rebuffed RWANDA President Paul Kagame rejected an allegation that he authorized the shooting down of a plane carrying then President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, killing Habyarimana and triggering the genocide that led to the deaths of more than...
Alongside a congregation of brochure tables for groups such as Green Peace and the Sierra Club was a table of bumper-stickers, bearing slogans like “Re-defeat Bush in 2004” and “More Trees, Less Bush...
...Okui was sent with his father and two brothers to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp set on a windswept square-mile plot at the foot of California's Sierra Nevada, 220 miles north of Los Angeles. He spent three years there, living in tarpaper-covered barracks, where privacy could be eked out only by stringing sheets between bunks. Later, as a schoolteacher, he conducted tours of the site. But only now does Okui--and others who remain of the 120,000 ethnic Japanese, mostly American citizens, who were held at Manzanar and nine other internment camps...
Some say they are beginning to see the outlines of a vision. Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope says that while he would not himself have used the term re-regulation, it speaks to the larger idea that Dean "acknowledges the fact that government needs to play a larger role in protecting people and the environment. He acknowledges the idea that you can just turn society over to free markets has been taken too far. That is his big idea, and it's a critical difference, even from what Clinton and Gore were willing...