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...civilians to breed fear, and abducting tens of thousands of children and teens to populate the fighting forces. Today residents at Anaka, although predominantly Christian, are skeptical that the cause of their roof fires could be anything but tangu - supernatural. While scientists might look for an explanation in the heat build-up from oxidation in the huts' thick straw thatch, camp residents claim other things have caught fire, too: articles of clothing, for example, and in some cases even children...
...lives--will now require major industrial producers of such gases to reduce emissions 25% by 2020. That means cutting the annual release of carbon dioxide in the state by 174 million metric tons. It takes a forest twice the size of New Jersey to process that much of the heat-trapping...
...permits from companies that can cut emissions more cheaply, and reduce their costs. "A cap-and-trade program, which has been used for controlling acid rain in the U.S., will give industry flexibility," says Jason Mark of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science-based non-profit. "If heat-trapping emissions are not reduced, the state faces poorer air quality, a sharp rise in extreme heat, a less reliable water supply, more dangerous wildfires, and risks to agriculture...
...adopted by the legislature Thursday and is expected to be signed by Schwarzenegger next week, would require that its industries measure exactly how much they emit by 2008. Then, by 2011, the state's independent Air Resources Board must adopt rules that cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants to 1990 levels by the year 2020. That's a 25 percent reduction compared to business as usual...
...Orleans, houses "stripped to the studs" are going for land value only. "The older generation who had homes for 40 years, retired, saved and thought they would stay forever, have gone on," says Ragan. "There is so much work to do and they can't get out in the heat and do it. You have young medical residents, construction workers, even investors from around the state who are moving...