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Powerless to block Three Gorges, critics hope it will be at least slowed by inadequate financing. They are urging governments and private investors to withhold the $3 billion in foreign loans and investments that the Chinese are seeking to help build the $30 billion dam. Says Dai Qing, a Chinese opponent of the dam who won a Goldman Environmental Prize last year, and is now a visiting scholar at the Australian National University: "I hope that people all over the world who love the environment and who love China will band together to stop this disastrous project...
...controversial pact with North Korea to curb its nuclear program in exchange for new light-water reactors financed by Japan and South Korea are shared by other Republicans. He will look into drug trafficking and human-rights violations in Burma, joined by Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry. He wants to withhold foreign aid from Colombia if Bogota shows favor to the Cali drug cartel, a position Kerry also embraces. He will probably call for close - scrutiny of arms sales by the Russians and the Chinese, a practice advocated by many...
...addition, Education Secretary Richard Riley has already said that the federal government will withhold $2.3 billion of federal funding because of the passage of 187. The requirement of schoolteachers and administrators to report the residency status of any person for law-enforcement purposes violates the Federal Education Privacy...
...your life and you don't have much of one if you're forced to drop of school or care for an unwanted baby," said senior Sheila Kadagathur. Since teens are sexually active "the solution is not to withhold birth control...
Gregoire thinks that the council should resort to price discrimination--charging more at council events for students who didn't contribute. For example, students who withhold their $20 would not be able to get subsidized tickets for council-sponsored concerts. Gregoire's amendment to that effect was ruled out because of the confidentiality guaranteed to those who withhold their fees. But we endorse Gregoire's idea that students who make their contributions be given membership cards to present at council functions. The council could preserve confidentiality if it would only operate like any other club...