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...Twittering Senator, @SenJohnMccain, the messages don't seem to be making much of an impact. Only a few dozen people have used the Twitter map to send their thoughts to McCain, and he responded with a tweet of his own: "According to Rasmussen, 52% of AZ voters oppose the current Health care reform plan - I agree, we need the right reform." Tweets clearly aren't changing any hearts or minds there...
...billion on remodeling and repairs last year, compared with $139.1 billion in 2007. And the scope of many projects is small compared to what it was, say, three years ago, when newly built homes, swimming pools and huge additions were more the order of the day than the current crop of bathroom renovations and refaced cabinets...
...logging of Southeast Asian jungles. "Orangutans can move in logged forest, but the energetic cost may be much greater, and food availability is likely to be lower, so populations become less healthy and less viable in the long term," says Thorpe. A 2007 United Nations report estimated that if current trends continue, 98% of forests in Sumatra and Borneo could be gone by 2022. If that happens, the orangutan could follow - the first of the great apes to disappear...
...Hillary Clinton was correct last week when she said that North Korea now "has nowhere to go." It must return to negotiations in some forum. But with questions intensifying about just how long Kim will be around, and what might come next should he die, the Obama Administration's current caution is understandable. Whatever thoughts it may have had about a Grand Bargain on North Korea's nukes have been set aside for the moment. Said a diplomatic source: "Everyone ... is back to trying to figure out the most basic things about [the regime]." Establishing bilateral talks "might help...
...April declared that forum dead and buried, and did so again on July 27 in the form of a statement from the Foreign Ministry. But at the end of that same statement, Pyongyang cryptically added, "There is a specific and reserved form of dialogue that can address the current situation...