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Leavitt's supporters claim that the report data are unreliable. Because Utah has only 33 of what the EPA calls "major" polluters (vs. 382 for Pennsylvania), improvement in a small number of facilities since 2001 has sharply shifted percentages. "We've got the problem in our cross hairs," says Walter Baker of the Utah division of water quality...
...During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
...Australia after armed fisheries officials boarded the ship following a three-week chase. The trawler has 85 tons of fish aboard; its crew could be fined up to $350,000 and spend 12 months in jail. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE ... Almost Poached President George W. Bush's personal chef, Walter Scheib, got steamed when jokers from a French TV show - disguised as President Chirac's wife Bernadette and her secretary - tempted him to quit the White House for a job in Chirac's kitchens. The fake first lady told Scheib her husband could no longer stomach French food, and craved hamburgers...
...DIED. WALTER ZAPP, 97, inventor of the Minox mini-camera, a device tiny enough to be hidden in a closed hand; in Binningen, Switzerland. Though the camera he created in 1936 became a popular gadget in James Bond movies and other spy films, Zapp's invention was inspired not by anything so intriguing as espionage but by having once worked as an art photographer's apprentice, which required him to lug around heavy wooden cameras...