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...Afghanistan. (It is the western border.) He said he had "spoken" with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton about policy. (He had only emailed with him.) He said he extended his "apologies" to the Pakistani people. (He meant to say "sympathies.") Then, to top it all off, while calling for stricter border security in order to keep any Pakistani terrorists from coming into the U.S., he seriously overstated the number of illegal Pakistani immigrants in the country...
...cuts for the wealthiest Americans in the short term, and advocates the so-called Fair Tax, which would replace the progressive income tax with a more regressive national sales tax. His major education reform would not be more federal spending on teachers or preschool, but more arts education, stricter teacher testing and a new federal push for home schooling or charter schools. When he speaks of health care, he talks not of new federal benefits, but of more focus on prevention for chronic disease like diabetes and tax breaks for health savings...
...federal Aquatic Invasive Species Act, passed in 1990, requires ships to disinfect their ballast before discharging it, but critics say its standards aren't tough enough. (A stricter version of the law is pending.) Lyles' electrochemical technology promises more pristine ballast...
...intended to be a casual event to foster fellowship and conversation over a few beers and pizza.” The proposal comes a month after the UC was forced to stop funding alcohol through its party grants. This year’s Harvard College Handbook also featured a stricter anti-hazing policy which can discipline student group leaders for dangerous drug or alcohol consumption. Mather HoCo Co-Chair Nikhil G. Mathews ’08 expressed concern about what the proposal would do to House community. “Our happy hours are one of the few on campus...
...enormous capital expenditure required to compete in the energy market makes government support all the more important. Many of the world's top solar and wind companies - like Germany's Q-Cells and Spain's Iberdrola - are based in the E.U., and with the region set to enact even stricter caps on carbon emissions, this head start is unlikely to disappear soon. "Europe is the clear leader in clean tech, from a market side, but also the technology side," says Felix von Schubert, a partner at London-based investment firm Zouk Ventures...