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...legislation would expand energy efficiency and renewable fuel incentives, end many tax breaks for oil and gas companies, increase the mandate on biofuels (such as ethanol made from corn and soybeans) from 6 billion to 36 billion gallons, authorize a carbon sequestration pilot project (which would trap carbon emissions underground) and make price gouging on oil and gas a federal crime. Ironically, it was meant to be the easy one of the two planned global warming bills. The second, expected later this summer, would set a cap on and establish reduction timetables for carbon emissions...
...military's current security push in Baghdad, known to Iraqis as Operation Fard al-Qanoon, or Imposing Law, has elicited opposite responses from Iraq's two warring sects. Shi'ite militias like the Mahdi Army have decided to lie low; their leaders went underground or on vacation to Iran. Sunni groups, especially al-Qaeda's Iraqi wing, have girded for battle. Groups associated with the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organization controlled by al-Qaeda, began to confer with one another and with other Sunni groups. "The first thing we realized is that we would need lots of IEDs...
...Klein says she squeaked, headbanged, and drummed on a table, to mixed reactions from her interviewers. “Some were really into it, some looked like they wanted to kill me,” she says. Klein will use her hard-earned grant to study gender in the underground music scene in Japan. “Basically, I’m going to go to a lot of concerts and Harvard will be paying for it,” she quips. But first, she will work at the New York branch of the Rock ’n Roll...
...Even if the bill does pass, the trade will continue, Bohannon insists: "If they shut it down, they will force it underground." Mead agrees, and notes that despite rules at California's maximum security Pelican Bay prison limiting prisoners' access to artist materials, art flourishes; prisoners scrape the colors from magazine ads and use manila envelopes as canvases. Donny Johnson, a well-known Pelican Bay artist, dissolves M&M candy for his colors and uses a paintbrush made from his own hair...
...magazine editor, points out that WHRB continues to acknowledge its original Harvard audience—the station’s news and sports coverage, though a small percentage of the broadcasts, are Harvard-centric, and various programs such as Record Hospital and The Darker Side cater to the more underground college crowd by playing indie rock and hip hop, respectively...