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...regions of the country have because of their dependence on [carbon intensive] coal. Coal is still 50% of our electricity portfolio right now, and there are concerns about how to make sure that, especially at this time, the energy agenda moves us forward. All of these things can't happen easily through a regulatory dialogue no matter how open we make the process because those issues fall outside the Clean Air Act. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...with a pristine view to be an environmentalist. You can live in a city. The air you must breathe and the water you must drink should be clean. You have the right to not live next to a polluted brownfield. I am hopeful that these changes are going to happen because young people today are growing up at a time when there is a green revolution underway. We can ride that wave at EPA and get a whole wave of young people energized about the environment...
...MADONNA falls off a horse and no one photographs it, does it actually happen...
...hangover), the Enterprise-D looked like a Qantas Club airport lounge - but somehow I didn't care. TNG wasn't dirty and real like Star Wars or degraded and cyberorganic and cosmopolitan like Blade Runner. This was the other future, the one that wasn't ever actually going to happen, but you wished it would. And it was riveting. Unconstrained by plausibility or topicality, TNG was free to be playful and sexy and self-aware and melodramatic and often just plain dramatic. (See pictures of Star Wars on tour...
...short term, of course, legalization of marijuana - let alone any other drug - is not going to happen. That explains why Juárez is such an interesting laboratory. More industrious than the border Gomorrah of Tijuana to the west but grittier than the pin-striped boardrooms of Monterrey to the east, the city has long been a Mexican forerunner: it was the site of the Mexican Revolution's first military victory, the nation's first maquiladoras and the first opposition mayor during the PRI's long rule. Can it now take a lead in the drug wars by pioneering police reform...