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...HANGED. NGUYEN TUONG VAN, 25, an Australian convicted of attempting to smuggle 400 g of heroin to Melbourne; in Singapore. Nguyen picked up the heroin in Cambodia and was caught in transit at Singapore's Changi Airport. Australian officials lobbied unsuccessfully to stop his execution. Singapore rejected Nguyen's request to have a final hug with family members, but allowed his mother to hold his hand and touch his face and hair the day before he was hanged. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock called the execution a "barbaric...
...scenes of cars frozen in gridlock or moving in endless lines at a snail's pace, as residents of Houston fled Hurricane Rita. This could well be what regular rush-hour traffic will look like a decade from now as we continue to build more cars than mass-transit vehicles and more highways than mass-transit infrastructure. The Bush Administration seems to be in denial about global warming, as it continues to ignore the Kyoto agreement in favor of Big Business. But warning signals from nature in the form of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita cannot be ignored. Max Desouza Toronto...
...technology. You just have to send a real clear signal that the Federal Government wants to." But a wholesale push to change our highway culture is unlikely. European countries decided long ago that it paid off to interfere in the free market by discouraging oil consumption and subsidizing mass transit, but that's not the American...
...scenes of cars frozen in gridlock or moving in endless lines at a snail's pace, as residents of Houston fled Hurricane Rita. This could well be what regular rush-hour traffic will look like a decade from now as we continue to build more cars than mass-transit vehicles and more highways than mass-transit infrastructure. The Bush Administration seems to be in denial about global warming, as it persists in ignoring the Kyoto agreement in favor of Big Business. But warning signals from nature in the form of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita cannot be ignored. Max Desouza Toronto...
...pitch in by being better conservers." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, announcing that federal workers are being encouraged to carpool or use mass transit in light of back-to-back hurricanes disrupting the country's oil refineries and distribution...