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...Texas officials are moving quickly to draw up new plans to reduce emissions. And Bush has asked his regulators to consider adopting California's strict auto-emission standards. "It's funny--the closer he gets to the general election," says Ken Kramer, director of the Sierra Club's Texas chapter, "the more of an environmentalist he becomes. But his record doesn...
...like to think about it," says Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, "is that we've finished Chapter One of a very long book. We've had the introduction, the expectations out of line with reality, and a tremendous amount of hype. Now we're seeing a closure to Chapter One and we're beginning Chapter Two, this time with more realistic expectations...
...chat rooms and on personal profiles. "There's a sense," says Cummings, "that they don't want to acknowledge who gives them their money." Last October a Fort Worth, Texas, man's profile was deleted because he mentioned his preferred sexual position. Frank Provasek of the local a.c.l.u. chapter conducted an informal investigation and said gay men's profiles are often removed or modified because of potentially offensive language. A company spokesperson replies, "AOL values all of its 21 million members. We want to make the online experience enjoyable, fun and safe for everyone, and we value and honor...
Adam Taylor is president of the Harvard chapter of the NAACP. Reynelle Brown and Clayton A. Bond are co-chairs of the Black Student Caucus at the Kennedy School of Government...
Last Sunday, in addition to the normal 60 or so council members, large numbers of black students, members of the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, attended a long and unwieldy council meeting on the constitutionality of the impeachment process. The word race was not mentioned once during the meeting, but its influence was felt in every section of the room. Some council members uttered disparaging words under their breath; others sighed in exasperation. But more than anything else...