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...reduce American dependence on foreign oil. In recent months the Administration has approved plans to search for oil and gas at dozens of sites in the Lower 48 states. In January, it fast-tracked seismic exploration for oil and gas by 26-ton "thumper trucks" in Utah's Dome Plateau desert, a few miles from Arches National Park--until the Interior Department's appeals office temporarily halted the trucks, saying a more thorough assessment of environmental damage was needed. And now the Administration is considering a proposal to drill more than 50,000 methane-gas wells in Wyoming and Montana...
...look up at a picture of my friend and myself in front of the Western Wall, with the golden Dome of the Rock peaking out like a rising sun overhead. I wish for the pictures simplicity and truth amidst swirling clouds of misinformation and the vaporous stench of rhetoric...
...tour of Mitte begins at the stately parliament building known as the Reichstag. A suspicious fire gutted the building in 1933, prompting Hitler to take dictatorial powers. The Reichstag has been rebuilt entirely, topped by British architect Norman Foster's breathtaking dome. The parliament is off limits to visitors, but it's possible to climb to the top of the dome for fantastic views of the city. A short walk from the Reichstag is the Brandenburg Gate. Built in 1791 to look like the Propylaea of the Acropolis, the gate became a symbol of the Berlin Wall, which was first...
...Saturday evening, back inside the storm-lashed Georgia Dome, Indiana proved too deep for Oklahoma and Maryland too big for Kansas. After the dust settled, fans who were once sworn enemies morphed into instant business partners, as the winners and losers exchanged tickets and money for Monday night's final...
...Super Bowls, this event was a welcome change, boasting a fan/school-centric, feel-good atmosphere absent from the others. The pro events? Too exclusionary. The Olympics? Too long and large to get your arms around. None of those problems plague the Final Four: Despite seating nearly 55,000, the Georgia Dome felt like any college gym in America, packed with fans crazed for their alma mater - times four. Four massive cheering sections competing, overlapping, clamoring; four pep bands at once framing the pace of the game, its intimacy, your team's nearly unbearable peaks and valleys...