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...occurred despite the general passivity of the White House toward green issues. "I'd say 90% of the business community wants more action on the environment than the Bush Administration does," says Esty. So while the Federal Government dragged its feet on alternative energy, business moved into the vacuum, lured primarily by potential profits. In 2005 Goldman Sachs pledged to invest $1 billion in renewable energy, while Cleantech Venture Network estimates that $10 billion in venture capital will be directed to green technology from 2005 to 2009. Under CEO Jeff Immelt's Ecomagination initiative, GE has committed to spending...
...Negroponte. He accumulated a staff of 1,500 plus a substantial but classified number of consultants. That's about double the staff envisioned in the law that established the DNI, and it only stoked the criticism that the new cabinet-level agency is an elephantine bureaucracy with a leadership vacuum; a permanent replacement for Hayden as deputy has still not been named, though an Army lieutenant general has been acting deputy DNI since mid-2006. (The deputy secretary of State post for which Negroponte is now headed has been vacant nearly as long...
...government's reliance on forces of the old enemy is unlikely to endear it to the Somali citizenry. Although Ethiopia promises to withdraw its forces within days, they had been active in Somalia for months before their presence was officially acknowledged, and a speedy withdrawal would leave a vacuum that the Islamists would once again fill. Yet having effectively repelled an Islamist advance on Baidoa, the Ethiopians risk losing much of their tactical advantage if they tried to capture Islamist strongholds, particularly the capital. Their goal, instead, according to Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is to weaken the Islamists...
...disengagement. On the other hand, the report confronts the failure of the Bush administration’s current policy head-on. But it is imperative that both parties realize the salience of the report and the truth in its reasoning. An immediate withdrawal will result in a power vacuum in Iraq and would open the door to escalated sectarian violence and Saudi military support of Sunni insurgents...
...cleaning fanatics, a vacuum can mean only one thing: Dyson. Since the company's inception in 1993, James Dyson has strived to create innovative machines superior to anything else on the market. Now comes his latest invention, the Root 6, above, a handheld vacuum that won't lose suction, never clogs and has a lithiumion battery. And with its space-age good looks, it's nice enough to leave lying around the house...