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...Barry (CNNSI) -- After presiding over the four-year slide into mediocrity of America's team, gun-toting Barry Switzer is resigning as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Meanwhile, Heisman winner Charles Woodson is leaving school for the greener gridirons...
...almost anyone on earth had heard of the subject, and as a Senator, he wrote a rousing manifesto on the subject, Earth in the Balance. But now he must sell an Administration approach he once would have called too cautious--one that is sure to get hammered by the greener-than-thou Europeans. If he comes home without an agreement, his environmentalist allies will jeer; if the U.S. agrees to a more stringent timetable to reduce emissions, the big-money industry and labor interests he needs in 2000 will scream. Which is why Gore's political advisers tried to talk...
...Some people will do it just because they want to be trendy or environmentally greener, but more people won't," Lee said...
...pretty depressing picture for environmentalists, then? Not entirely. Once you accept that Kyoto is going to be primarily an agreement for industrialized nations, things start to look a little rosier ? or greener. Al Gore's instruction to his negotiators to show "greater flexibility" does seem to be reaping rewards: While the U.S. delegation once wouldn't go a single percentage point below 1990 carbon dioxide levels, they're now calling reports of 2 percent below "an understatement." So a "modest achievement," in Estrada's words, does seem close ? and Senate ratification is a battle Gore et al can fight another...
...ubiquitous brew pubs and coffee bars. Inevitably, a cottage industry is springing up to service the newcomers. At least four recent books promise to teach cityfolk how to find the village of their dreams (Moving to Small Town America, Small Town Bound), and one entrepreneur has a company, the Greener Pastures Institute, that helps urbanites engineer the great escape...