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...results like these offer hope that ARVs may someday help stem the rate of new infections worldwide, but public-health experts in the U.S. worry that they may also prompt people in affluent at-risk communities to leapfrog the emerging science and self-medicate. "It's inevitable," says Dr. Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. "Nobody wants to wait...
Hours and hours of hearings finally led to a legislative breakthrough in December: the passage out of the committee of the first bill that would put carbon caps on the U.S. economy. Co-sponsored by the Republican Sen. John Warner and the Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the America's Climate Security Act would cap U.S. carbon emissions at 15% below 2005 levels by 2020, with a 70% cut projected for 2050. If enacted, those carbon caps would all but force U.S. businesses to invest in cleaner technology and greater energy efficiency, and would help the country take a leadership role...
...bill that requires automakers, for the first time in decades, to boost the gas mileage of the cars they sell and mandates increased use of biofuels. Just as importantly, the legislation calling for carbon-emission caps - co-sponsored by the independent Senator Joseph Lieberman and the Republican Senator John Warner - passed the first hurdle to becoming law. Bush has always opposed mandatory carbon caps and could veto the bill. But with climate change becoming a bigger issue in this year's presidential and congressional elections, even Bush might find it hard to do that. "You have Republicans and Democrats getting...
...five - Atonement, Juno, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood - were released by the so-called indie subsidiaries of the majors. Michael Clayton is the one official studio release, and that got made only when its star, George Clooney, ever so charmingly put a gun to Warner's corporate groin, cocked the trigger and said, in effect, "Please. Or I'll squeeze...
...dollars a month in Iraq, we put seven to nine billion dollars a year into this, there would be a stunning output.” Kerry said that while he is working with like-minded colleagues—notably Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.)—to pass bills to reduce carbon emissions, the fact that no law has emerged from Congress reflects the power of interests working against the legislation. He said that there is a “powerful set of arguments” for businesses to want...