Iran ramps up uranium enrichment

As promised, Iran began enriching uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday, state media said.

I noticed the difference while passing through customs at Cartagena’s international airport, after connecting on a one-hour direct flight from Panama City on Panama-based Copa Airlines, via Mexico City, where I live. There were the actors–the show included a mock-Chippendale’s number and a comedy skit involving a giant inflatable bottle of Corona–who overlapped with the bullfighters, although a hierarchy began to emerge, with the front line in the mad-cow bulwark perhaps better termed “fresh meat.” From our limited back and forth, I could also glean that the bullfights would be done Portuguese style, i.e., the bull would be allowed to live (perhaps for fiscal as much as sentimental reasons), and that there is a rich heritage of midget rodeos throughout Spain, Mexico, and Central and South America. plan to spend $2 billion over the next several years installing millions of the advanced meters in homes across the Golden State. What he made instead — “Last Days,” which opened Friday in Los Angeles — isn’t one per se.Indeed, “Last Days” is best described as an impressionistic art/experimental film — a mood piece — that attempts to get inside the confused and agitated state of a rock musician named Blake, just before his suicide. President Bush promised victory in Iraq and safer schools while addressing standing-room-only crowds Wednesday at fundraisers in Arizona and Colorado.The appearances wrapped up his three-day swing through four Western states.Bush told a crowd of 450 at a morning fundraiser for Rep. An array of shops and restaurants includes the Pike shopping center and the East Village Arts District. THE FINANCIAL TIMES today editorializes about what would have been the big news of the week: the encounter between Chinese leader Hu Jintao and President Bush, which was postponed in the aftermath of Katrina The paper says the meeting shouldn’t be put off too long.

It was just a feeling of willfulness, just attack these guys.”*(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)Sixty is niftyKobe Bryant became the sixth player in Laker history to score 60 or more points in a game when he scored 62 in three quarters against Dallas on Tuesday. Although offensive to many, the officials said, the effigy (Pearcy prefers it be called a “display”) was within the couple’s rights.Next came the media In a Feb. Forest Whitaker, who has struggled to find parts commensurate with his gifts, is allowed in the British film “The Last King of Scotland” to present a depiction of humanized villainy that bravely doesn’t lose track of historical atrocities. Carey gave Dura permission to pay its employees and ordered the company’s banks to cash all previously written paychecks.Dura has arranged for about $300 million in loans from Goldman Sachs and British bank Barclays, which are co-lead managers on the financing, so the company can continue to operate. Not just a relic of a vanishing Native American culture, a fate that she has long accepted. The environment has never faced greater political peril in America than it does today, says former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.”History, however, instructs us that the trajectory of environmental protection is moving ever upward over time, even as the trend line occasionally breaks downward,” Babbitt asserts in his new book “Cities in the Wilderness.”A Democrat, Babbitt ran the Interior Department for eight years under President Clinton, who in Babbitt’s words “protected more acres of land and water than any of his predecessors.” If parts of that legacy are in jeopardy now, as Babbitt says they are, he remains confident that the public, in time, will again demand that the federal government play a stronger role in protecting natural resources.In his book, he examines the conservation record of the Clinton era.