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Still, until Juárez's crisis finally lifts, there are plenty in El Paso who will demand more and "weigh in on national policy," as O'Rourke, the city-council member, puts it. Talk of legalizing marijuana is growing; the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March heard prominent drug researchers argue that cannabis should be sold legally and taxed like tobacco. Ernesto Zedillo and César Gaviria, former Presidents of Mexico and Colombia, respectively, have said the same. And Mexico's Congress is again debating decriminalization of marijuana use, after backing off the issue a few years ago under...
...like card-check, which President Obama, in the middle of a recession, now foolishly advocates. Finally, the administration’s efforts on climate change resulted in 2006 in the first decline in carbon emissions in a non-recession year since 1990, without draconian or punitive regulations that would weigh down business in today’s economic climate...
...They will have to weigh course availability in each program, oscillating concentration possibilities and the structure of each curriculum in making a decision...
...assistant deputy chief of staff for operations. The specifics required by the Army and the Marines are spelled out in the request for bids: blas-resistant, off-road vehicles that drive 65 mph, have 16 inches of ground clearance, accelerate from zero to 30 mph in 12 seconds and weigh no more than 10 tons. Oh yes, the winning bidder also has to be able to produce 500 to 2,000 vehicles within a couple of months...
Still, as Democrats weigh another bank bailout and a potential second stimulus bill, the global-warming legislation may get knocked another rung down the ladder - a terrible waste of a rare opportunity for dramatic action, in the eyes of U.S. environmentalists still smarting from the Bush Administration's pullout from the Kyoto Protocol. "Right now we have a degree of flexibility [regarding] what we need to do and what other countries are willing to do," says David Doniger, policy director at the NRDC's Climate Center. "That tremendous opportunity may be lost at this moment if this drags...