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Your 15 Minutes Are Up!
Zed holds forth on the fleeting flame of fame and considers a sharp left turn into politics. Lend a shoulder to cry on to Zed, last of his species, in “Washing Down the Washed-up Blues.”
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I Could Have Had a G8!
One demonstrator has been killed and at least 46 demonstrators and 31 police officers have been hurt today in Genoa, Italy, where leaders of the Group of Eight nations have gathered for their annual summit. Barricades set up earlier this week have kept protesters far from the medieval palace in which the G8 leaders are […]
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A Bee in Their Bonnet
The chair of the current climate change conference, Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, said yesterday that his “hopes are growing day by day” that an international agreement would be reached. But others at the conference in Bonn, Germany, were far more pessimistic about a positive outcome. It’s not just environmental groups that are pulling for […]
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A Bonn in the Oven
It’s a fair bet that many in the diplomatic horde converging on Bonn, Germany, for the latest round of global warming talks would rather be somewhere else. In the past when they’ve gathered, negotiators charged with forging an international strategy against climate change could usually expect to produce enough forward movement, however incremental, to go […]
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Gallons of Gasp
A panel appointed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has drafted a report recommending that the U.S. require automakers to improve the fuel economy of new vehicles. The 13-member panel, made up mostly of engineers and consultants who have worked for auto and oil companies, contends that fuel economy for cars and SUVs could […]
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Fuel on the Hill
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, five cabinet secretaries, and 25 congressional Republicans fanned out across the country yesterday to try to bolster public support for the Bush administration’s drill-based energy plan. Now that fuel costs are falling and fuel supplies are rising, the administration has taken to describing the current energy situation in the country […]
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Kweisi for You
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said last week that it would sue companies that manufactured lead paint. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume described exposure to lead paint as a “civil rights issue.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that low-income children are eight times more likely to live […]
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Non Bonn Jovial
Delegates from about 180 countries began talks today in Bonn, Germany, to try to salvage the Kyoto treaty on climate change, even though the U.S. has withdrawn from it. The European Union is lobbying Japan not to follow U.S. President Bush’s lead by rejecting Kyoto. But Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday downplayed the talks […]
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Visibly Upset
The 1,900 new power plants called for in U.S. President Bush’s energy plan pose a big threat to air quality in places where smog is already bad, experts say. They are also concerned about moves by the Bush administration to end efforts by former President Clinton to force dozens of dirty, old coal-powered plants to […]
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Diary of Dick Cheney's secretive group discovered!
Congressional investigators were thwarted by the White House this week in their attempts to determine the identities of the people who met with Vice President Dick Cheney’s secret energy task force. Indeed, even the names of some task force members remain unknown. The task force’s influential report gave short shrift to various environmental concerns long-believed […]
