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...Brokeback Mountain is a cowboy romance about two ranch-hand buddies who start a homosexual affair when they meet on the fictional mountain...
Then McConnell overplayed his hand, forcing four beleaguered Senate clerks to read the entire 492-page climate bill into the record on Wednesday night - an eight-hour ordeal that unfolded as a wild electrical storm crashed through the Washington area. Twisters touched down here and there, rain lashed the hot streets in wicked sheets, and giant lightning bolts arced through the sky near the Capitol dome. Scientists caution that no single storm can be linked to climate change, but if ever there was heavy weather sent down by angry climate Gods, this must have been it. "It should give Senators...
...wouldn't be anywhere near as hot without a generous German tariff. New research and development might cut atomic costs, just as we hope will happen for alternatives. And the sheer size of the problem facing the global energy industry demands that no solution can be dismissed out of hand. On June 6 the International Energy Agency released a study calling for $45 trillion in energy investments between now and 2050, including both a vast expansion in wind power and the construction of some 1,400 new nuclear plants. The conservatives are wrong to argue that nuclear deserves special treatment...
Incensed by government inaction, many Burmese have personally delivered bags of rice and drinking water to Nargis refugees. The country's top brass have not taken kindly to such private largesse, setting up roadblocks to deter relief convoys and hassling some monks who hand out mosquito nets or scoops of rice. An aid effort spearheaded by a comedian who made government misrule his fodder was bound to irk the junta...
...extended conversation between the prisoners had arisen inadvertently, or had been planned by the court for prisoners who have been isolated for years and held under the strictest control and security. Whatever the reason, the result was clear: All five chose to represent themselves in court, with lawyers on hand to provide advise as needed, a move that forshadows further coordination of strategy between the defendants...