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...make a powerful Vice President do something he doesn't want to do, however much the President needs it? From the earliest days of this Administration, the President has been comfortable having a Vice President who answers only to him and pretty much scares everyone else. When Cheney simply shut down after the accident, there was no one else in the White House with the nerve or clout to bring him back online. Cheney "has a very protective family, plus there is an unfortunate intimidation factor," says a former Administration official. "Very few staff--either in Cheneyworld or Bushworld...
...tender for two new reactors; British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a debate about the future of nuclear power amid signs that the government may order several new plants; and in Germany and Sweden, public debates are raging about whether to reverse a previous commitment to shut down existing reactors. It's no surprise that Lauvergeon talks about a "nuclear renaissance...
...their music available online. Most have, though a few big names, including the Beatles and Radiohead, remain on the sidelines. By the company's own estimates, it made five times more tracks available in Europe than any other label. The strategy had some external help. Legal action in 2001 shut down Napster, the P2P service that was the granddaddy of illegal filesharing. Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that companies whose software enables the trading of free music can be held liable for theft. Levy says the industry's legal crackdown is "paying off in raising awareness ? that...
...been silenced by the agency for speaking out about evidence for global warming; the resulting furor led the NASA official who was involved to resign. Hansen?s commentary on the Greenland result appears here. And when Rignot was asked yesterday whether anyone at the agency had tried to shut him up, he said he?d been subjected to no such pressure...
...Harvard is not taking any squad lightly, especially in light of its second three-game losing streak of the season.“Both [Brown and Yale] are solid team coming into this weekend,” Harvard senior center Brian Cusworth said. “We have to shut them down inside and out.”Cusworth will be most concerned with keeping Brown center Mark MacDonald at bay, as the sophomore put up sixteen points on the Crimson center in the teams’ last meeting. The focus of Harvard’s collective defensive effort, however...