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...reverse the damage. They also identify the problem with the Pearl River Delta, saying 80% of emissions come from across the border with China. Yet new research shows that about half the time, most of Hong Kong's air pollution comes from local sources. Cleaning up our road transport, shipping and power generation will make an enormous difference. Otherwise, there will be a toll on public health, and taxpayers will end up paying for rising medical costs. The government's first step, long overdue, is to adopt the World Health Organization's global air-quality guidelines and make them...
...enough to wipe out 30 million bison. Humans played a big role. By 1700 Native Americans were riding horses, which allowed them to kill prey much more efficiently than by approaching on foot, as they had done for the previous 9,000 years. Steam power allowed for the cheap transport of bison hides, and in the 1870s tanners learned to make useful leather from them. Demand soared, and the new Sharps "buffalo rifle" allowed hunters to meet that demand. The last significant bison hunt ended in 1883, when there were almost none left...
...Hunsaker testified on Tuesday that Girouard called his squad members in for a meeting after the detainees had been readied for transport. There, according to Hunsaker, Girouard told them about what the officer had said, adding: "He tells us cut the ties [on the detainees' wrists], let them loose, and shoot them...
...which requires members to, in effect, lease a portion of a cow - for $20 a year, in his case - and sign an agreement opposing "all governmental standards for food, preparation, storage and safety." The $6.25-per-gal. charge is technically not a sale but compensation to cover board and transport costs...
Spinetta was well positioned to handle the labor battle. A career civil servant as opposed to a market-hardened manager, he joined the transport ministry in 1988. He was picked to head the state-owned domestic airline Air Inter in 1990. It was fully merged into Air France in 1997, when Spinetta was tapped to run the whole airline. He immediately appealed to employees to become partners in the company. "If we're all still here today, it's because Spinetta convinced workers that he was serious about negotiating and that the sacrifices we had to make were just," says...