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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b of not presenting the information in such a way that they're able to understand and maybe care about it the way we see it," Studholme said.

In the end, according to Kruszewski, this work may have paid off.

The General Assembly did ultimately pass the Virginia Clean Smokestacks Act but not in the original form for which the students campaigned.

Although legislators implemented changes after meeting with lobbyists on the other side of the issues, Trumbo-Tual said he believed the work he participated in helped make it so those views were not the only side considered.

Kruszewski defended this apparent clash of special interest groups that can appear distracting to the legislative process.

"Everyone has special interests and there wouldn't be special interest groups if there weren't regular people donating to them," she said.

Without such groups, Studholme said, many people would not be able to get their ideas into the political arena.

"A lot of people don't have the time to talk to their legislator about ...

all the stuff that they're voting on," Studholme said.

Although the General Assembly has already voted on the Virginia Clean Smokestacks Act, the students' efforts to educate their community are not over.

"You can't just lobby," Kruszewski said.

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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b among students and parents on the admission policy for the academic year 2006 and taking note of the pendency of Special Leave Petition (on CET issue) before the Supreme Court, a tentative programme for holding the CET has been finalised," an official release said.

The announcement comes a day after the Supreme Court posted to April 13 for hearing the SLP challenging a February 27 Madras High Court order striking down the state Act that abolished CET only for state board students.

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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b is sweeping across the migrant work force in the region."Who will do this work?

" said one migrant worker from Mexico who works near the Village of Warwick.

"We do the hard jobs."The same sentiment is shared by farmers."I love how lawmakers twist this around and say (farmers) just want to pay people less," Pawelski said.

"I could offer to pay $100 per hour, but nobody, I mean nobody, is going to come and work this hard, get this dirty for a seasonal, temporary job.

You don't even see the kids of farmers willing to do it." Top Record Online is brought to you by the Times Herald-Record, serving New York's Hudson Valley and the Catskills.

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