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...antiterror campaign. The court ruled that the Justice Department and FBI could not take advantage of several key liberalizations of FISA included in the U.S.A. Patriot Act, passed after the Sept. 11 attacks. Attorney General John Ashcroft wanted criminal prosecutors and counterintelligence agents to share information in a coordinated manner, and Congress agreed by legalizing such information sharing in the act; but the court now insists that Justice continue to observe the pre-Sept. 11 FISA restrictions. As a result, the Administration says its war on terrorism hangs in the balance. As the FISA law stands, an FBI intelligence squad...
...that natural resources should be just as valued a part of our capital base as factories and machines. Biomimicry by Janine Benyus encourages companies to look to nature for possible design techniques. She cites San Francisco's Iridigm, whose flat screens for mobile electronic devices produce color in a manner similar to the way microscopic structures create color on butterflies' wings. And in The New Economy of Nature, Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison tell the stories of innovators trying to "make conservation profitable," including financier Richard Sandor...
...established a comprehensive emissions-trading program. To gain some certainty for their long-range planning, the utilities would agree to mandatory caps on emissions that included not just nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury but also carbon. Companies would have the flexibility of meeting targets in the most efficient manner by buying and selling emissions rights...
...wraps. The best way to sample Nanjing's unsung delectables at their most authentic is to join the early morning crowds in the Wenchang Xiang neighborhood, a few blocks from People's Square. You'll find dozens of dexterous cooks already up and kneading, shaping, frying and baking all manner of snacks...
...bombings, Europeans note that calling for an end to Palestinian violence without mentioning the expansion of Israeli settlements is unfair and counterproductive. Yet America's friends abroad despair of any progress because they see the U.S. as unwilling or unable, for domestic political reasons, to operate in an evenhanded manner on this matter. The issue of Iraq only serves to widen the perception gap. While U.S. officials proceed with plans to displace Iraq's Saddam Hussein, European leaders wonder if they are living in the same world as the Americans. They can't imagine how the U.S. can hope...