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Examining key differences between Obama and McCain
tom.brune@newsday.comCOLORADO SPRINGS - With just two months to go before the Nov. 4 election, the presidential race has been dominated recently by an intraparty drama, a surprise running mate, two historic nominations, duels over judgment and experience - and the...Tags: NATO, Elections, Natural Science, Defense, Petroleum Industry
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Audiobooks
GLOBAL WARMING Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America By Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman Macmillan Audio Just as the 2008 campaign heats up, Friedman presents his case for "Geo-Greenism." He...Tags: Beau Bridges, Al Gore, Global Warming, Cynthia Nixon
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Brain cells relive your past -- before you even realize it
Individual cells in the brain may be reliving the past even before a person consciously experiences a memory, a study published in Science journal shows. Researchers in California and Israel played clips of The Simpsons and other television shows to...Tags: Physical Fitness, Conservation, Therapies, Mental Illness, Illnesses
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McCain's maverick side is overstated; he's no longer an independent
All week, Republicans have hailed Sen. John McCain as a maverick and a reformer, an independent thinker who'll shake up Washington with the aid of presumptive vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. It's a sharp contrast with the way Democrats last week...Tags: Barack Obama, Economic Policy, Elections, Campaign Finance, National Government
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Hanna-Ike-Josephine storm trio isn't an anomaly
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDespite the prospect of three major tropical storms heading toward the Southeastern United States, meteorologists say that the conga-line assault is not particularly unusual in the stormy history of the region. "We're in peak season in an active...Tags: National Hurricane Center, Weather Reports, Hurricane Ike, Tropical Storms, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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A closer look at Sarah Palin's record
The Wall Street JournalIn the five days since Sen. John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate, she has been embraced by the right and pilloried by the left as a staunch conservative on social and economic issues. But a look at her record as mayor...Tags: Conservation, Elections, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Condoleezza Rice, Wildlife
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A third term
As John McCain attempts to convince Americans that he is different from George W. Bush, he made the strange move of choosing as his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, someone who agrees with Bush even more often than does McCain. Palin also happens...Tags: Barack Obama, Conservation, Joe Biden, NASA, Executive Branch
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Why smog, soot and more will keep heating up your life by 2058
Smog, soot and other particles add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report. These overlooked, shorter-term pollutants -- mostly from burning...Tags: NASA, Vehicles, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Air Pollution, Global Warming
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Viewpoint: American Optimism: Is All Hope Lost, or Can We Find It?
The resonance of Sen. Barack Obama's call for "hope" is striking, because hope seems in such short supply. This spring, 81 percent of Americans told the New York Times/ CBS News poll that "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track"; 9 out...Tags: Washington Post Company, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Elections, Phil Gramm, General Electric Company
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Envoy: Handle warming like war
LONDON — The United States and Europe should battle global warming even more seriously than they fought the Cold War, Britain's envoy for climate change said Wednesday. John Ashton said industrialized countries should put their economies on a war... -
Low insurance rates may bring solvency crisis for state
Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty sounded a warning recently when he told the chairman of Lloyds of London, "The threat of continuing global warming is an issue that all Floridians need to be thinking about, because unless we all take action to help...Tags: Meteorological Disasters, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Disasters, Natural Disasters, Insurance
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Summit explores carbon capture, storage ideas
Associated Press WriterWith federal greenhouse gas limits possible in the near future, Indiana's utilities could soon face the challenge of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants that generate most of the state's electricity. A state-sponsored two-...Tags: Barack Obama, Alternative Energy, Elections, Mining, Renewable Energy
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