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The plan settles a dispute between the state of California and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that dates back to George W. Bush's White House. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the right to enforce air-pollution standards that are tougher than the rest of the nation's...
Less than a minute after the market opened, share trading was halted for the first time ever when sharp gains in the Sensitive Index, or Sensex, triggered an automatic suspension. Trading resumed two hours later but so-called "circuit breakers" were again tripped by heavy buying in a matter of...
When the assault on Tiananmen began, he could only wince as he heard the pop-pop-pop of automatic rifles near his home: "While sitting in the courtyard with my family, I heard intense gunfire," he wrote. "A tragedy to shock the world had not been averted, and was happening...
But some options may soon disappear. The UNHCR this week announced that since the overall level of violence in Iraq had waned, it is no longer recommending that most Iraqis get automatic refugee status abroad. Instead, they should be individually interviewed to determine their status, the Geneva-based agency said...
One particularly epic shoot-out pitted Ian Malott '09 against Will Hetzler '09. After realizing that his target was on his way back to his room, Hetzler camped out behind a door at the end of the Quincy hallway armed with a grotesque fully automatic nerf gun. Hetzler watched through...