A Backlash Against Bickering
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR2006100200938.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006; Page A17
CONCORD, N.H. -- Republicans have been scratching their heads in
frustration. Why has a relatively good economy not been helping either
President Bush's approval ratings or their party's electoral cause?
One answer is that economic growth is helping people at the top far
more than anyone else. Another explanation can be discovered here and
in other well-functioning states around the country: To the extent that
voters are expressing gratitude this year, they are saying thanks to
their governors. That does not stop them from yelling irately at
Washington, D.C.
They carry on regardless
Tony Juniper
October 3, 2006 11:15 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tony_juniper/2006/10/post_469.html
I am in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, meeting with colleagues from
across the globe to discuss the future of our environmental campaigns.
Identifying a global plan is a vast challenge and makes Friends of the
Earth's work back home in the UK seem quite straightforward by
comparison.
There are some common threads amid the great complexity, however. In
our debates between Friends of the Earth campaigners from more than 70
countries, I am constantly brought back to one big unifying dilemma:
how can we resolve the clash of interest between those who are well
off, and those who are in poverty, and do that at the same times as
protecting the Earth's vital ecological systems, including a stable
climate?
Try again Lula
Conor Foley
October 3, 2006 09:53 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/conor_foley/2006/10/try_again_lula.html
In some ways the most surprising thing about Brazil's election results
was how close president Lula came to a first round victory.
His 48.6% of the vote against 41.6% for Gerald Alckmin, his nearest
rival, was just short of an overall majority, which means that a second
poll will now have to take place at the end of October. Since the two
candidates who will now drop out are both former members of his
leftwing Workers' party (PT), it is almost certain that most of their
votes will go to Lula, which should be enough to give him an outright
victory second time around.
A Hand on the Ladle, and an Eye Out for the Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/world/africa/03cairo.html?ref=africa&pagewanted=all
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Farouk Salem, an unlicensed street vendor in Cairo, sells ful, the fava
bean stew that is a staple of Egyptian cuisine.
Oases of Modernity Amid India's Desert of Public Services
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/business/worldbusiness/03zones.html?ref=asia
By SARITHA RAI
India's special economic zones, or S.E.Z.'s, could offer a partial
solution to the extreme weaknesses in India's infrastructure.
A Coming Papal Visit Focuses Anger Among the Turks
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/world/europe/03turkey.html?ref=europe&pagewanted=all
By IAN FISHER
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey in late November is likely to be
a flash point for a surprisingly broad array of issues.
Bridging a Racial Rift That Isn't Black and White
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/us/03georgia.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
The influx of Hispanic immigrants is changing race relations in many
Southern towns, with blacks losing ground.
Veto in California on Electoral College
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/washington/03electoral.html?ref=politics
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill designed to circumvent the
Electoral College in presidential elections.
Online-Gambling Shares Plunge on Passage of U.S. Crackdown Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/technology/03gamble.html?ref=worldbusiness
By ERIC PFANNER, International Herald Tribune
The U.S. government's move to criminalize the processing of online
wagers led to a Black Monday for the online-gambling industry.
Numbers Are Male, Said Pythagoras, and the Idea Persists
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/science/03comm.html?ref=science&pagewanted=all
By MARGARET WERTHEIM
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more
than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as
inherently male.
A Science Show Courts 'Blue-Collar Intellectuals'
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/arts/television/03tyso.html?ref=arts
By FELICIA R. LEE
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of
"Nova Science Now," is looking to bring science to the people -
the regular people, that is.
Failure to Root Out a Secret Front in the War on Terror
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/arts/television/03stan.html?ref=arts
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
"Frontline" examines why the United States appears to be losing
ground against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
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