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...Clean air. Hong Kong has a serious air-pollution problem. The Chief Executive is in denial about it. The bureaucrats talk about striking a "balance" between development and environment without realizing their challenge is to reverse the damage. They also identify the problem with the Pearl River Delta, saying 80% of emissions come from across the border with China. Yet new research shows that about half the time, most of Hong Kong's air pollution comes from local sources. Cleaning up our road transport, shipping and power generation will make an enormous difference. Otherwise, there will be a toll...
...After reading your article, I realize that the problem Japan faces today more or less prevails everywhere in the world. The rich get richer, and the lives of ordinary people get more marginal and dismal. With all its growth, a country like Japan is still unable to find a plausible solution to its ever-looming socioeconomic crisis. Sheiza Khan Karachi...
...When I'm looking for something I've dropped on the carpet, I have a bit of a problem." ANGELA MERKEL German Chancellor and chair of a European Union summit that will ban 27 E.U. nations from using conventional lightbulbs by 2010; Merkel conceded that new energy-saving bulbs are "not yet quite bright enough...
There is one glaring difference Bayrou would quite like to downplay: even if he becomes President, his party is unlikely to secure a majority in the next Parliament, which will emerge at elections in June. His opponents predict Italian-style political confusion. Bayrou simply says he'll address that problem if and when it happens. Meanwhile, he's set about showing the snobs who looked down on him just who has the measure of the French electorate. "Millions of people in France feel the same look from those on top," he says. "They need to know that the people giving...
MASTER SERGEANT RONALD JENKINS, protesting the fact that he was ordered to go to Iraq even though he has a spinal problem that his doctors say would be exacerbated by heavy Army gear...