Dec. 16, 2008—An American security consultant ... was himself kidnapped last week in northern Mexico after delivering a seminar there on how to avoid that fate... NYT A6
Dec. 16, 2008—The inspector general of the Interior Department has found that agency officials often manipulated scientific facts to limit protections for species at risk... NYT A19
Dec. 14, 2008—An unpublished, 513 page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure. NYT A1
Dec. 13, 2008—The [White House] decision [to aid the auto industry] came after a tense standoff this week in which senior White House officials pleaded with Senate Republicans not to block the measure, including a warning by VP Dick Cheney that they would be remembered as the party of Herbert Hoover if the industry collapsed. NYT A1
Dec.12, 2008—Texas’s governor said US regulation of carbon dioxide emissions will be “economically disastrous” for the state. WSJ A1, A4
Dec. 12, 2008—Several big US firms are reincorporating in Switzerland, helping them avoid expected legislation aimed at companies in tax havens. WSJ A1, B1
Dec. 12, 2008—In vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research likened to “in of abortion”—Roman Catholic Church—USA Today, 2A
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