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...Secretary may have a point - the ESA wasn't designed to counter a threat as global as global warming. The best way to deal with carbon emissions is to pass national legislation that would create a cap-and-trade program, rather than trying to stretch the ESA to fit a purpose its drafters couldn't have foreseen. But the ongoing battle over the polar bear is a reminder that wildlife will be the first victims of global warming - and that saving them won't be easy...
...exactly going to be stranded on the island à la Tom Hanks in Castaway? Oh no, my girlfriend is looking forward to it! She's coming out for the full six months and friends and family can drop in as they see fit. My aim is for other people to be ambassadors for the Barrier Reef...
...It’s not rewarding sometimes. That’s when the idea for the Web site was born.”Launched in April 2007, INeedAPencil.com offers SAT prep for free. It provides lessons and practice test questions, and users are able to customize their sessions to fit a certain time frame. But INeedAPencil.com also adds special features to the typical program. These include a visual progress chart that keeps track of completed lessons, a score projector that calculates the actual expected test score based on aggregate performance, and even a “confidence calibrator?...
...investor class, protecting marriage from gays, blocking universal health insurance and extolling the glories of waterboarding produces terrific ratings for Rush Limbaugh, but it's not a majority agenda. The party's new, Hooverish focus on austerity on the brink of another depression does not seem to fit the national mood, and it's shamelessly hypocritical, given the party's recent history of massive deficit spending on pork, war and prescription drugs in good times, not to mention its continuing support for deficit-exploding tax cuts in bad times...
...Senate before August, which is what they [the Obama Administration] want," Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who is also on the committee, said. The Senate has just over two months until the break, punctuated by weeks off for Independence and Memorial Days. Not a lot of time to fit in two rounds of personal visits, vetting, confirmation hearings and a floor vote - as is traditional with Supreme Court nominees...