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...Internet allows listeners to indulge their passions for Icelandic pop, the sports of other nations or The Archers, Britain's long-running radio soap opera - and almost nothing else can connect you so instantly, even dramatically, with the far-flung corners of the real world. The Internet, says Ken Mueller, curator of radio for the Museum of Television and Radio, in New York City, "allows you to find those niche formats that may not be, or most likely are not, commercially viable in most areas. And that's one of the beauties...
...Bush's startling turnaround on carbon-dioxide emissions. The interagency group that met at the White House two weeks ago was deeply divided. Whitman's EPA wanted to stand by the campaign promise. The State and Treasury departments wanted to finesse the issue by deferring action. And political director Ken Mehlman wanted to abandon the promise, calling it a liability in states like coal-rich West Virginia, which Bush won last year after decades of Democratic dominance. All three options were presented to Bush...
...work, temporary work and contract work proliferated. Employers pursue these arrangements primarily because they cut labor costs and permit the circumvention of state and federal labor laws. Of course, reducing labor costs with the same number of workers necessarily means lower wages. In a recently published study, Arne Kalleberg, Ken Hudson and I show that nonstandard employment arrangements (particularly temporary work and contract work) reduce workers' pay, access to benefits and job security...
...open space on the council could generate more interest in the election, said Ken Carson, the president of Born's party, the Cambridge Civic Alliance...
...held in Bonn in mid-July. Bush the First helped pioneer credit trading in 1990, when he signed legislation that capped power plants' sulfur dioxide emissions--the main ingredient in acid rain--but allowed the plants to swap credits. And Houston-based Enron, an energy trader whose chairman, Ken Lay, was a prominent W. campaign adviser, stands to be a huge player in any such market. So if it's good for business, Bush the ex-businessman won't need that big a push...