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...environmentalists had a cool response to Bush?s comments. "This is a big photo opportunity. It's designed to make Bush look like an environmentalist, when all he's shown is a propensity to harm America's wetlands," Jonathan Ullman, spokesman for the Sierra Club of South Florida told the Associated Press. And while the Bush White House is not likely to care much about the likes of Ullman, staffers are concerned that months of bad press from environmentalists could scar the President?s image in the public at large...
...suvs, the $84,000 behemoth gets 10 m.p.g. and scoffs at quaint notions like a recession or an energy crisis. Indeed, when DaimlerChrysler began showcasing it last fall in the U.S. through its Freightliner division (until this year the Mog has been available only in Europe and Asia), the Sierra Club dubbed it "Daimlersaurus Wrecks." But, hey, it's more intimidating than the Hummer and more versatile. Each truck can be customized from its bare chassis. Just check out these options...
...like Corning. That's going to be a great fiber-optic franchise, particularly because they make a lot of money selling the actual fiber, and one of their chief competitors, Lucent Technologies, is really a mess right now. On the semiconductor side, we've long been fans of PMC-Sierra and Vitesse. On the software side, in addition to liking Veritas, we're also big fans of BEA Systems...
...SIERRA LEONE Child Soldiers Freed Rebels released more than 100 child soldiers and agreed to begin disarming after U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Freetown. Representatives of the Revolutionary United Front said they would free another 200 of the estimated 5,000 children in their ranks. Pro-government militias also agreed to end hostilities in what is seen as the most hopeful step toward ending 10 years of civil war. Demobilization will begin in two northern towns immediately, and further locations by the end of the month...
...worsening. Guinea became the battlefield last fall as rebels from all three countries attacked and burned the refugee camps that line the country's southern borders. Everyone ran whichever way seemed away from the sounds of gunfire: south to Liberia, north to Guinea's interior and south to Sierra Leone. The 460,000 refugees, added to tens of thousands of newly displaced natives, amounted to a crisis...