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...continue to haunt Indonesia long after the headlines have been forgotten. Factories are spewing out toxins unchecked, illegal loggers are slicing through national parks with impunity, and poachers and hunters are decimating the country's rich wildlife. At sea, pollution, uncontrolled fishing and the use of cyanide and dynamite threaten to empty Indonesia's waters of marine life...
...power. As part of the hotly debated national energy plan that he unveiled last week, President George Bush called nuclear energy "a major component" of any solution. Critics, not surprisingly, say the comeback of the $43 billion-a-year industry is a step in the wrong direction that will threaten the environment as well as public health and safety. Nor did the Administration's unexpected recommendation to take another look at reprocessing spent nuclear fuel get a particularly warm reaction...
...military attack from the mainland? Chen: For the defense of Taiwan we are compelled to purchase modern and advanced defensive weapons. It is not a choice -- we are forced to do so. The PRC missile deployment and military build-up are aimed not only at Taiwan but also seriously threaten the interests of the U.S. and Japan in the western Pacific region. If conflict breaks out, the impact will not be limited to one place or to the two countries directly involved. Taiwan's security must be protected, but there is no need for that protection...
Parents and educators have learned to fear drugs, cliques and school shootings. Now, added to the list of things that threaten our schoolkids is dodge ball. You read that right. In a growing number of school districts in such states as Texas, Virginia, Maine and Massachusetts, circles of kids dodging and throwing balls at one another have been banned from gym class. Advocacy groups are pushing to get rid of the game; and Neil Williams, an Eastern Connecticut State University phys ed professor, has created a P.E. Hall of Shame, ranking dodge ball as his No. 1 villain. "It allows...
...their trying to get paid a fair share when huge corporations re-sell their work, even if it's hard to get all weepy over a battle of millionaires vs. billionaires.) But it was lost on no one that the writers picked the worst time in recent years to threaten a strike. Sure, the already-soft ad market gave them a little leverage over the networks, who need to announce a fall schedule to advertisers in a couple of weeks. But writers are now negotiating with multi-tentacled entertainment Borgs that are well-positioned to survive a strike for quite...