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...have become multinational giants selling steel and fiberglass wind turbines; even blue chippers like General Electric have identified wind power as a major revenue source for the future, while the construction and installation of wind turbines will employ workers here in the U.S. Investing in wind power, said President Barack Obama at a turbine factory in Iowa on Earth Day, "is a win-win. It's good for the environment; it's great for the economy." (See the top 10 green stories...
...Barack Obama scheduled his Tuesday press conference, like the three that came before, on home turf, in the Rose Garden, just outside his office. But owing to the heat, the event was moved inside at the last minute - to the foreign soil of the briefing room. And the press corps, which has been deferential through repeated prime-time pressers in the East Room, began to assert itself as never before in his tenure. (Read "Why Obama Remains Cautious on Iran...
...When Bloomberg's Hans Nichols asked the President to predict the peak of the unemployment rate, the President smiled again, as if he was dodging a bad pass. "Since you just threw back at us our last prognosis, let's not engage in another one," he said. (Read "Barack Obama's First 100 Days...
...than ever to crashing. The 72-year-old Italian Prime Minister is facing a swirl of questions linked to his personal life, including the latest allegations that a high-paid escort stayed with him at his Rome residence the night of Nov. 4 as results were coming in of Barack Obama's election victory. But as damning as the news may appear, it is still too early to predict the demise of the billionaire TV tycoon, who rose to power in 1994 with an often disorientating formula of government, gossip, over-the-top charm and expansive media influence...
...question about Barack Obama has always been this: Is he a risk taker? Domestically, he answered it months ago with his massive stimulus package. On foreign policy, we only just learned the answer. By taking on the Israeli government over the issue of settlement growth, Obama is showing that he's a gambler overseas as well. Despite the conventional wisdom that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is impossible anytime soon, he seems hell-bent on pursuing one. And if he breaks china in the process...