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...20th anniversary of the Valdez accident, the spill and its toll are in danger of being forgotten - even as new offshore oil and gas exploration is being considered in Alaska. In 2007, former President George W. Bush ended a long-standing executive ban on offshore oil drilling in Bristol Bay in the southeastern waters of the Bering Sea, potentially opening up what's been called America's "fish basket" to the fossil fuels industry. Although the Obama Administration has slowed the process, it hasn't stopped it - and Alaska's Republican Gov. Sarah Palin would be happy to "drill, baby...
...does behave a little differently [outdoors],” Crimson coach Erik Farrar said. “So [the team] has to reacclimate to the conditions.” Harvard closes out the six-game week against Pacific, UC-Santa Cruz, No. 12 UC-Davis, and Cal State-Monterey Bay later in the week. “We’re looking for experience out here,” Farrar said of the Crimson’s goals for the week. “We’re playing six games against six good teams?...
...Torture is both inhumane and ineffective; indeed, Guantanamo Bay has induced more suicides than convictions. A moral government would reject both physical acts of torture and circumstances that perpetuate the implication that torture is permissible. Thus, in the name of the ideology that both Obama and America represent, Obama should make a clean break from the past administration and refuse to cover up any acts of torture...
...Cheney didn't sugarcoat his attacks on the Obama Administration, saying its counterterrorism policies "will in fact raise the risk to the American people" of another terrorist attack. Cheney claimed that the Bush policies - including holding suspects at Guantánamo Bay and using harsh interrogation techniques to extract information from them - had helped prevent another attack after 9/11...
...trying to deflect attention from Bush-era policies, Cheney's aggression will likely have the opposite effect. "If his goal was to tamp down talk of a truth commission, he has probably exacerbated the problem," a veteran Republican told TIME. (See pictures inside Guantánamo Bay...