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...However stillborn Bush's final agenda may be, though, he does have reason to hope for a ratings boost over the next 12 months. Even unpopular Presidents often leave on an upswing, thanks to the end-of-term focus on statesmanship and because they look good next to those scrambling to replace them. Bush has pretty much nowhere to go but up from his current 34% in the polls. The war is improving and it looks as if there will be a steady drawdown of troops over the next 12 months. And even if his diplomatic initiatives, like the Arab...
...attention when business leaders like GE CEO Jeff Immelt came out in favor of mandatory caps on carbon emissions, a move that also blew down the straw house of the deny-and-delay crowd. The legislation that Warner has written with Lieberman, an Independent, combines elements of earlier, stillborn bills, and it won crucial backing from California Senator Barbara Boxer, Democratic chairwoman of the Environment Committee. "This is an election issue," she says. "Voters need to know which Senators believe global warming is real and which...
...contemplate “changes in the governance of the University.” In turn, the Committee of Fifteen begat the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, to deal with incidents like the April 1969 riots that started all the trouble to begin with. And lest we forget the stillborn President’s Emergency Consultative Committee, which was declared to be literally too big (and heavy) to meet on the second floor of University Hall, which had been damaged by the student occupation. It only ever met once...
...daunting tasks. Some warlords have already dismissed the new government as a paper authority that will cease to have muscle - and therefore a point - once Ethiopia withdraws its forces. And on Tuesday, Gedi's attempt to persuade Somalis to disarm voluntarily in a three-day weapons amnesty appeared stillborn, when not a single weapon was handed in at collection points around Mogadishu. By evening, Aidid indicated the government realized it had been over-ambitious, saying it had called an emergency meeting Wednesday to hammer out a new disarmament plan and adding that the government would now be happy with...
...jolt to get yourself moving.) Coffee also seems to decrease slightly the risk of liver damage in patients with a history of alcoholism, perhaps because coffee contains lots of antioxidants. But the news isn't all good. Drinking lots of coffee during pregnancy increases the risk of having a stillborn child...