Word: air
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...short, Obama as messiah wasn’t in the air in Ashtabula. Indeed, for some, it was to the contrary. In the course of a Saturday afternoon spent canvassing Roaming Shores, a planned lakeside community, one of my volunteers came across a voter who, when prompted to for her preference among the candidates for President said, “Oh, don’t worry, I’m voting for Obama,” and enigmatically added, “but, you know…right?” Know what? “Well, that he?...
...have your lifestyle and your business here," says Masdar's Awad. And though it may make old-school greens shake in their Birkenstocks, this carbon-free city next to a very unsustainable desert metropolis - where watering keeps the lawns green in the dry winter and everything is air-conditioned - represents at least one future of environmentalism, a future that embraces new technology to remedy the ills of old technology. That's because those in the rising developing world - which is how Abu Dhabi is classified, despite a GDP per capita of $63,000 - want to enjoy the energy-intensive lifestyles...
...Afghans do not see that foreign troops are bringing them the safety they desire. Instead they associate foreigners with air strikes on innocents and raids on houses, while basic security, justice and protection from crime remain out of reach. As one 13-year-old girl who had been kidnapped and raped on her way home from school told me, "Yes, I used to like school, but this happened to me when I walked home one day. Life has not improved since the Taliban left. Either way I can't get an education, but at least under the Taliban I wouldn...
...Both sides traded shots after their separate announcements, but Gaza residents say the cease-fire seems to be gaining strength, and Palestinians have emerged from their refuges to assess the damage of Israel's three-week-long air and land assault against Hamas in Gaza...
...cosmopolitan clientele and worldly sounds. Choose your groove: the first floor theme is Americana and the second is Diaspora. The VIP lounge, Sky Club, will be for the seriously swanky this inauguration. For a breather, leap onto the outdoor deck for a change of pace - inhale the still, January air and appreciate the luminous Potomac aglow under a dimmed night...