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That's about what President Carter envisioned more than 20 years ago--albeit with a different timetable--when he signed into law the Magnetic Fusion Engineering Act in 1980. Said Carter: "Fusion power offers the potential for a limitless energy source with manageable environmental effects." The law established as a national goal the successful operation of a magnetic fusion-demonstration plant...
...many people have been killed by twenty-something year old males? Or what about Asian drivers? I think the current licensing standard is adequate for all people, all ages. We start discriminating against one group, where does it stop? One incidence, albeit horrific, does not speak for a group. Even to ask the question in my opinion shows a reactive, non-American mind. Matt Scott California...
...mind in Botswana. Her unhappiness eats away at Ray's sense of self-worth, as does her increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay and witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly ordinary midlife crisis, albeit in an exotic setting, except for two things. One, the tender, funny eloquence with which Rush sketches Ray's distress. And two, the fact that Ray is actually a secret agent. That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor...
...sucking Beijing into the mess. Says political scientist Joseph Cheng of City University of Hong Kong: "The Tung Administration has become a political liability for China." One sign of Beijing's displeasure: pro-China newspapers in the territory have now been allowed to report and comment?albeit in subdued tones?on the shortcomings of Tung and his government. In the past week, too, China's leadership has recalled members of the Beijing Liaison Office in Hong Kong for briefings and has dispatched a slew of other officials to the territory to gauge for itself the local mood...
There's a huge market for secondhand clothing overseas, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where few can afford to buy new clothes. And it's no secret that nonprofits like the Salvation Army fund their aid programs by selling donated goods to exporters. But USAgain is the first unabashed--albeit vaguely labeled--for-profit firm to establish a nationwide presence in the U.S. The company, based in Elgin, Ill., is teaming up with recycling contractors in cities like St. Paul, Minn., where residents can leave bags of clothing on the curb alongside paper and plastics. But some towns have sent...