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...grows slowly, about an inch a year - it can take six or seven decades for the saguaro cactus to grow an arm - and those 15-to-20-foot saguaros that dot the Sonoran desert can be over 200 years old. According to state law, any saguaro cactus over four feet tall cannot be moved from public or private land without a permit. To help prevent their removal, the Cactus Society has initiated talks with state and federal wildlife officials about implanting wild saguaros with memory chips that can be scanned and tracked...
...become a more secure nation then we had better start supplying our very, very hungry markets across the nation with American supplies of energy. And up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy...
...also criticizes negative campaigning, writing in 2004: "Wayward ammunition causes damages when politicians run negative campaigns aimed toward opponents' feet instead of shooting straight with voters...
...Obama Debate? I think Obama's reluctance to debate, especially in a town-hall context, stems from his not wanting to think on his feet, something he doesn't seem to do particularly well, with his frequent stammering and "wait a minute" efforts to clarify himself [Aug. 18]. When you can't be straight with people about what you really want to do, you get stuck trying to think fast about what you can say that will placate the large majority of people and not tick off your base. In Obama's case, that seems to present a real challenge...
...nine days, Tropical Storm Fay drenched nine states, entering and exiting Florida four times alone while dousing portions of it with more than two feet of rain. And while the Sunshine State dealt with the havoc caused by the steady, heavy rains that almost certainly touched each of its 67 counties, the bad weather increased the woes of Florida's precarious and crucial $9 billion citrus industry...