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...Kelly is the man who made the tape, Adam asked. "I'm telling you, they can't," he said. Among other key questions: Why are prosecutors planning to call to testify a North Carolina doctor who apparently has never interviewed the alleged victim? And, just how did the tape wind up at the Chicago Sun-Times in 2002? If found guilty, Kelly could be sentenced to 15 years in prison...
...wider business world the burgeoning opportunity is seen as investment in renewable energy, for which massive government subsidies are available. The front runners tend to be biofuels for transport and wind power for electricity generation. The E.U. is still committed to increasing the use of biofuels, but it has belatedly been recognized that large-scale production of crops for fuel rather than for food is a major cause of the surge in food prices that is causing severe hardship in much of the developing world. Moreover, approximately as much carbon-based energy is used in the production of most biofuels...
...Wind power is little better. Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity. But the main reasons why this is a bubble are more fundamental. Emissions trading has a future only if the Kyoto agreement, which runs out in 2012, is succeeded by an even more far-reaching and rigorous global accord. It is now clear this is not going to happen. And in today's harsher economic climate, governments are more likely...
...Smith said that the individuals on the ballot had to be both nominated and had to agree to the job. He said that "a good number of women" were present for the first step, even if their names did not wind up on the ballot...
...lights, arranged in the shape of a heart on the steps of Memorial Church, flickered in the wind Sunday evening as a memorial to the devastation caused by the earthquake that rocked the Sichuan province of China last week...