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...trade was revised in Congress, though, that number has dwindled - the current bill would channel perhaps about $10 billion a year to energy research in its early stages - but not solely for clean energy. By contrast, on the campaign trail Obama promised to spend $150 billion over 10 years just on clean-energy research. On July 16, an assortment of 34 Nobel Prize winners wrote a letter to Obama, calling for more support for energy research and development in the climate bill. "We need a much larger investment than what we're getting," says Jesse Jenkins, director of energy...
Palin, Sarah • bill banning a beloved pastime of - shooting defenseless animals from aircraft - is introduced in the Senate • Clear Channel is not interested in syndicating a radio show hosted by, so we may never get to hear blithering twaddle like this • demagoguery of is noted by Carl Bernstein and Maureen Dowd • hated reporters are told by that "our troops are willing to die for you" so "how 'bout ya quit makin' things up" in honor of the American soldiers so grotesquely exploited by • quitting speech of is ridiculed by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart...
...other ethnic communities but not to the Burmese, simply because they don't know they're there in any number. When the 2000 Census showed that Indians were the fastest-growing Asian group in the U.S., marketers went berserk. Wells Fargo started sponsoring Bollywood concerts. MTV launched a channel just for South Asians. That's why municipalities make such an effort too. When companies make expansion plans - when they decide where to build their next store or where to open a satellite office - it can make a big difference whether your city has 100,000 potential shoppers and employees...
...helps that fishing is what defines Bristol Bay. At the main port of Dillingham, the biggest news story of early summer is the catching of the first king salmon of the season. Bristol Bay's commercial fishermen - including the stars of the Discovery Channel reality show The Deadliest Catch - net hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of seafood. But everyone fishes - Todd Palin, Alaska's First Dude and a Dillingham native, has a reserved spot on a local beach. (See pictures of Sarah Palin on the campaign trail...
Reflecting on the experience over Gchat the next morning, my friend and I talked about how the TaxiVaca (or “Cow Cab”) reminded us of the popular Discovery Channel show “Cash Cab.” I laughed at her suggestion that the TaxiVaca should require passengers to moo the answers to trivia questions in Spanish. We would have lost horribly...