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...sooner this partnership is ended, the better, for the two groups are unlikely to agree over the next step. The current boom in clean energy investment will only be sustained if the price of oil remains high. Cellulosic ethanol, produced from trees and shrubs, promises energy yield ratios of 16, but requires extensive research into cheaper enzymes. A full-scale carbon tax would help, but hawks reject such action as quite rash. At most, they might support a gasoline tax as a way of weaning America off Saudi crude...
...Sadr pointed out, barriers can be used against Shi'ite neighborhoods as easily as Sunni ones. The Americans have persistently, if sometimes obliquely, laid the blame for sectarian violence at Sadr's doorstep. If the Americans begin unilaterally throwing up walls across Baghdad, Sadr will have to fear that sooner or later those walls will start closing in on him and his militia...
...noticed that Seung-Hui was painfully shy as a youngster in South Korea, but she had reassured his mother that he would come out of his shell sooner or later. "I told her he was just shy and had a soft personality." However, she says that other relatives were less optimistic about his shortcomings and reportedly saw his aloofness as dysfunctional and a telltale sign of a looming mental problem...
...forced me into a corner and gave me only one option ... Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off." He sent the package express mail to NBC in New York City; if he hadn't had the address wrong, it might have gotten there sooner. Then he headed back out the door and across the campus to Norris Hall, home of the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. And suddenly this was not over...
...could make such crimes seem appealing. But picture yourself as Cho Seung-Hui, the 23-year-old student responsible for the Virginia Tech bloodbath, walking the halls of the school, selecting lives to extinguish and then ... extinguishing them. It is perhaps a measure of our humanity that we could sooner imagine ourselves as the killed than as the killer, and find it easier to conjure up what it would feel like to plead for our lives than to take someone else...