Not every one of Tony Blair's enthusiasms was a bad idea, butelected mayors in every city would probably not be good. London isan exception, because its elected mayor is effectively the presidentof a fair-sized country, both in terms of population and wealth.
Stan Frith (Letters, June 26) wrote about an incestuous selectionprocess by Bath's Lib Dems with Tim Ball following in the footstepsof his wife and Lib Dem Cllr Sharon Ball as the new Mayor of …
When Luiz Inacio (Lula) da Silva was elected president of Brazil in 2002, hopes were high that the longtime radical leftist would prove to be a strong ally of both the poor and the environment. Since then, however, his government has backed away from progressive reforms and embraced many aspects of market-driven neoliberalism.
Lula's latest backtracking was on the …
A federal agency proposed nearly 6,000 square miles (15,540 square kilometers) of southwest Alaska shoreline be protected habitat for a threatened population of northern sea otters.
About 90 percent of northern sea otters live in coastal Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands population was declared threatened three years ago under the Endangered Species Act.
About 40,000 northern sea otters exist today, less than half 1970s estimates. The reasons for the decline are not known, but increasing predation by killer whales is suspected.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal issued Tuesday would designate nearshore waters in southwest Alaska as …
HOUSTON Pennzoil and a committee representing stockholders inTexaco have agreed to settle the legal feud between the oil companiesfor $3 billion in cash, a Pennzoil spokesman said.
The proposal, which still must be approved by Texaco creditors,a federal judge and Texaco shareholders, will be filed next week withthe federal bankruptcy court in White Plains, N.Y.
Texaco and two financial subsidiaries filed for protection underChapter 11 of the bankruptcy code in April to avoid having to post asecurity bond equal to the $10.3 billion damage judgment against itby Pennzoil for improperly interfering in a merger between Pennzoiland Getty Oil Co.
Texaco's …
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Two top Yahoo Inc. officials on Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering congressional criticism over information Yahoo gave the Chinese government about the man's online activities.
"Yahoo claims that this is just one big misunderstanding. Let me be clear _ this was no misunderstanding," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said as his panel's hearing got under way. "This was inexcusably negligent behavior at best, and deliberately deceptive behavior at worst."
He angrily urged Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan to …
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Truck and bus dispatchers coordinate the movements of trucks and buses entering and leaving terminals. Truck dispatchers assign drivers to trucks and make sure they have the correct freight-charge bills for their loads. Bus dispatchers assign drivers to buses and ensure that the buses move out of the terminals on schedule.
Both truck and bus dispatchers stay in touch with drivers on the road, communicating by phone, computer, or two-way radio. …
