Thursday, February 22, 2007
'Coalition of the willing' shrinking
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007
NEWS
Report warns water crisis looming in arid Southwest
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The fast-growing states of the arid Southwest must plan for more severe
droughts and make difficult water management choices choices made even
tougher
by global warming, says a new scientific assessment of the Colorado
River
Basin.
'Coalition of the willing' shrinking
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President Bush's "coalition of the willing," long seen by much of the
world as
a shell for a largely U.S. operation in Iraq, is quickly becoming a
coalition
of the unwilling.
Consumer price index rises 0.2% in January; medical costs push it up
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Consumer prices rose more than expected in January despite a dip in
energy
prices, as medical costs jumped, a Labor Department report said
Wednesday.
