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Landis tested positive for abnormal testosterone levels, a result confounding and dumbfounding, given that a number of prerace favorites were tossed from the Tour under a cloud of doping suspicion. Could he have been so brazen--or stupid? "I hoped there was a genuine hero in the making," says Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who is quick to add that people shouldn't convict Landis right away. Still, it's painful. "Oh God," he says, "another nosebleed for the sport...
...Guantánamo as a font of intelligence is a dubious notion, for the value of information obtained under torture is highly questionable. Believing that useful information can still be gleaned from some of the detainees after four years is as stupid, arrogant and shameful as continuing to detain those no longer facing regular questioning. But then Guantánamo has more to do with blind revenge and the display of unlimited power than with obtaining justice. The best way for Americans to fix Gitmo would be to close it and return Guantánamo Bay, a remnant of colonial...
...long ago if it were in Texas. Wayne Rosen Calgary Guantanamo as a font of intelligence is a dubious notion, for the value of information obtained under torture is highly questionable. Believing that useful information can still be gleaned from some of the detainees after four years is as stupid, arrogant and shameful as continuing to detain those no longer facing regular questioning. But then Guantánamo has more to do with blind revenge and the display of unlimited power than with obtaining justice. The best way for Americans to fix Gitmo would be to close it and return...
...concerns: education, home ownership, health care, retirement security. They are variations on many of the programs that were hallmarks of Bill Clinton's presidency. But if there was a chance that any of it would sound fresh, that died the moment Hillary Clinton announced: "It's the American dream, stupid." Maybe that's why the speech, even with this audience, got little more than dutiful applause...
...define burial of carbon below seabeds as "dumping" have to be amended. Still, new and refitted power plants using supercritical or igcc technologies could be made carbon-capture ready for little additional expense. "If anyone is building a new coal plant that is not capture ready, they're really stupid," says Jonathan R. Gibbins, an energy expert at London's Imperial College. There is some movement toward a cleaner-coal future in Europe. Vattenfall is building a $63 million, 30-MW pilot plant in the east German town of Schwarze Pumpe that uses another, untested clean-coal technology: oxyfuel...