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...actually allows California to set its own, stricter vehicle emissions standards - rather than deferring to Washington - and then allows other states to choose to follow Sacramento's lead. Following in that tradition, in 2005 California passed a law that would tighten greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, starting with 2009 models, eventually leading to a 30% reduction in overall global warming emissions by model year 2016. Sixteen other states, both red and blue, have moved to adopt California's standards since, but to implement the legislation, Sacramento needed a routine waiver from the federal Environmental Protection Agency...
...this debate; the facts overwhelmingly support what many in the world recognize as the 20th century's first genocide. Denial only perpetuates the suffering of the families affected by this horrific tragedy and discredits the U.S. government's resolve in championing human rights. If Turkey is to be the model of a moderate Islamic country, it should do the right thing and come to terms with its past. Stephan Pechdimaldji, WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIF...
...vaccine. Timms hopes to begin testing the vaccine on koalas this month. According to Timms, over half of Australia’s koalas are infected with chlamydia. Guinea pig trials, with actual guinea pigs, will hopefully follow in 2008. “The idea is to be able to model the immune system and then test some vaccines that the Australians have underway to see if they can actually protect in other models,” Starnbach says. Dubbed the “Silent Killer,” chlamydia often has no visible symptoms, but can cause serious reproductive problems...
...aftermath of a Supreme Court decision this year invalidating race-based school assignment systems, Cambridge’s “controlled-choice” policy, which strives to balance the schools by socio-economic characteristics, has been cited as a national model for school desegregation...
...what I’ve been trying to argue through this whole campaign is that we’re actually entering a whole new era,” Seidel says, who is married with no children. “We’ve got to shake up the whole model and rearrange the pieces because we’ve got a whole new set of challenges before...