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...plan to include more money for conservation and alternative energy sources than the president had originally sought, and added requirements for improved efficiency of heating and air conditioning systems in federal buildings. And they simply abandoned some of Bush?s more radioactive proposals, like the measure limiting nuclear-plant liability and a broad initiative to restructure the nation?s electricity system. All in all, said House Republican Conference Chairman J.C. Watts before the vote, they?d only tackled "80 to 85 percent" of Bush?s plan...
...Could Be Your Life" is a lesson in the impossibility of reducing the revolution to an individual (or a trio). Its story goes like this: in the early `80s, a bunch of kids in unknown punk bands, like L.A.'s Black Flag, figured out that "calling up a pressing plant and getting their own record manufactured wasn't the mysterious, exclusive privilege of the giant record companies on the coasts." Black Flag's guitarist and co-founder, Gregg Ginn, used the business acumen he picked up from a surplus radio equipment business he operated out of his home to market...
That's a tribute to Bush's willingness to take on his party's anti-immigration wing--and to the reality of two entwined economies. In the past 15 years, entire sectors of American business have become dependent on low-wage illegal laborers to wash dishes, pour foundations, plant impatiens and butcher cattle. And the exodus has had a stranger impact south of the border: rural Mexico has hollowed out so dramatically that many villages are void of men and the agrarian economy is failing. But the workers up north are sending so much money back home--$8 billion...
...kept out of her son's hair by spending six solid years writing her book. If there was any interference, it took place during their weekly Sunday walks around Dumbarton Oaks. By then, an artificial hip was slowing her. She never complained about getting old. At parties she would plant herself on a chair and let the room come to her. She kept in touch by going to the movies, even the bad ones, and she'd always ask for the senior discount...
...opium before coming to Laos, and she had told herself back in Epsom, England, she would never, ever, try heroin. But she viewed opium, which is the base product from which other opiates like morphine and heroin are derived, as different. This drug, the dried resin of a poppy plant, seemed more organic than those bindles of powdered heroin she had seen change hands back in England. While those transactions had seemed sinister, this complex heating of the opium and then stoking of the pipe was appealingly ritualistic. "It's really wicked, the way you have to lie down...