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...conducted unrestricted warfare against civilian populations, making no distinction between them and military forces. If there is a difference between Nanking and the fire-bombing of cities like London, Dresden, Hamburg and Tokyo, it is that in Nanking the depredations took place on the ground, face to face - while air raids, of course, are conducted from a distance, with the bombers unable to witness the death agonies of their anonymous victims...
...each year between 2008 and 2020, topping out at $240 per ton. That might seem excessive, but Brown points out that even a carbon tax higher than $240 per ton wouldn't cover all the environmental and health costs of burning fossil fuels, from climate change to air pollution-related illnesses. And while it's difficult to imagine any politician standing up for such a tax, he reminds us that we already have a precedent for a heavy tax that takes into account negative externalities and attempts to discourage consumption: cigarette taxes...
...deadline for T-shirt design submissions is Jan. 11 and contest rules are available on the group’s Web site (http://thezingweb.com). Members reported that The Zing’s plans after LoveFest are up in the air, though they plan to recruit more students and perhaps hold a science fair modeled on ArtsFirst...
...unusually well in the college towns of Ames, Iowa City and Grinnell as well as the labor bastion of Blackhawk county. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, teenagers in cars "scooped the loop" along the downtown streets and yelled Obama's name - "Whoohoo! Obama! Fired up!" - in the icy night air...
Meanwhile, Odinga visited the city mortuary, where his aides opened up lockers and displayed the dead to the press. On the steps of the building, with the stench of bodies in the air, Odinga declared Kibaki "a thief" and added: "I have no other power to change what is happening right now. [The people] voted for change and what they got is the continuation of the status quo. So people must address the cause of this problem, not the consequence. The cause of the problem is the rigging of elections...