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Peabody's fuel-supply contract with the Mohave Generating Station ends in 2005. But the power plant is required to start installing scrubbers on its smokestacks before then, and its executives do not want to spend $400 million on that project unless the Hopi water problem is resolved. Either Washington gives Peabody permission to pump aquifer water for the life of the mine, which could be an additional 15 years, or an alternative water source must be found for the slurry pipeline. "We have to decide by next year," says Nader Mansour, manager for environmental regulations for Southern California Edison...
...woman. On a trip to a Greek island with her "girlfriend," the sapphic Sumire disappears "just like smoke." And what has started out as a boy-loves-girl-loves-girl love story winds up as nothing but a shaggy ghost tale. No explanation is given for Sumire's disappearance, unless the reader accepts musings such as "this side is actually the other side" and that "on the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstanding." Such pretentious meditations become even more irksome because...
...deride her as a “racist” is unjustified, unsubstantiated and inappropriate. To suggest, given the context of the event and the topic of the evening, that the HRC “is guilty of bringing hate to Harvard” is ridiculous, unless one regards protection of the unborn, judicial restraint and color-blindness as hateful. Indeed, one of the central themes of the evening was the constitutionality of race-based discrimination, and Coulter spoke out against what many consider a particularly pernicious form of racism...
...responding to, which often renders the author’s points utterly useless for lack of context. In fact, for those interested in the meat of author’s arguments, I advise skipping directly to Chapter 12: “Sokal’s Hoax,” unless one wants to read a circuitous recap of the history of physics...
...mood over at the White House is one of increasingly frustrated anticipation. President Bush, anxious to see a bill - any bill - appear on his desk, prefers the House Republicans? version, but warns Congress that unless he sees action on the airport security bill soon, he?ll consider bypassing debate altogether by issuing an executive order. Ever hopeful for a peaceful outcome, the President met with congressional leaders Wednesday to try to smooth over differences...