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...nature has become a call to arms. When the Ballard neighborhood council in Seattle rejected the installation of an automated self-cleaning toilet in its major intersection in 2002 on the grounds that it would be an eyesore, a community-based walking group called Feet First stepped into action. The group produced a "pit-stop" map of local, independently owned coffee shops that would happily welcome the additional pedestrian traffic a public toilet could draw. The Seattle toilet project, however, was ultimately scrapped...
...words might have inspired meaningful action had they come, say, four years ago. Now, though, they're little more than lofty talk. Even if Congress does pass a bill giving detainees the right to habeas, the legislation will probably amount to zip. The reason is not that President Bush will veto it - although he very well might - but that the detainees may soon get that right without congressional assistance. And how? Either the Supreme Court or the President himself will give it to them...
...When Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas during the Civil War and Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japanese-Americans rounded up after Pearl Harbor, Congress quickly debated, and then blessed, the actions retroactively. As a result, Americans were "reassured that the President's unilateral action would stand only with the approval of their congressional representatives, as the founding fathers intended," Greenberger explained in Legal Affairs magazine...
...Critics will decry the fact that the U.N. has taken so long (four years and counting) to consider meaningful action, and even then to not do enough, but the British assessment reflects reality. The fighting in Darfur, which pitches Arab supremacist militias backed by the Sudanese army against Darfur rebels, has killed an estimated 200,000 people and left 2 million homeless. Against that, the U.N. has authorized a force of 26,000 peacekeepers whose mandate is limited to monitoring - but never seizing - arms, and which can only act defensively to protect civilians and the free movement of humanitarian workers...
...neighborhoods by the vehicle ban, watched at home or with friends. In poorer neighborhoods fans without televisions gathered at tea houses. Emptied of people, the streets were given over to stray cats and dogs. The score was 0-0 at halftime, but fans were optimistic as Iraq controlled the action and had several chances to score...