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...comfortable with who he is." What about the families of those who have died or who continue to suffer imprisonment for their political or religious beliefs in Cuba? There is no need to present the Castros in soft focus as your reporter did. They should be judged by the standards to which political leaders should adhere: respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of just law. On all these counts, Raúl Castro falls short. Jeremy Lefroy Staffordshire, England Radical Sheik Scott Macleod seems to romanticize Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah [Aug. 21]. Behind his smiling face...
...years ago, Logitech introduced laser technology as the standard for reliable cordless mice, and its competitors scrambled to follow suit. The MX Revolution reveals three impressive new features which will no doubt be copied in years to come...
...total output, by some estimates. The Clinton Administration did not attack the problem until its final year, when it issued a proposal that would have required a 90% cut in power-plant mercury by 2008. President George W. Bush has discarded the Clinton rule in favor of a looser standard that would result in only a 70% reduction by as late as 2025. What's more, Bush weakened the Clean Air Act's new-source-review rule, which requires power-plant owners to install the best available pollution controls when they make major upgrades that result in increased emissions...
...source-review requirements by refusing to sanction a loophole that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had introduced, and last month a circuit court in Chicago forbade a move by the Cinergy power corporation to measure its pollution output hour to hour rather than year to year, because the hourly standard often produces a lower, less accurate reading of emissions. In November the U.S. Supreme Court will address the same measurement question in a case out of North Carolina. All those battles technically address smog and soot, not mercury, but where the first two go, the third follows. "Power plants...
...good set of feet can take you anywhere, doesn't require a parking place, can go up and down stairs, usually comes as standard equipment on a human body, isn't likely to be stolen and is allowed on a variety of surfaces in all 50 states. KENT JUDKINS Shreveport...