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Could instant coffee make me happy? This is the promise held out by Via, the instant - sorry, "100% Natural Instant & Microground" - coffee just launched by Starbucks, which it promises tastes just like a fresh-brewed cup of its own java. (See pictures of Italian coffee...
This is the second time Schwarzenegger has held a global warming conference focused on what state and local governments can do about climate change, and it couldn't come at a more appropriate time. While Washington under President George W. Bush all but ignored climate change, California - with the Republican Schwarzenegger sometimes leading and sometimes following - embarked on its own green path, passing a landmark carbon-emissions cap for the state in 2006 and aggressively promoting renewable energy. Today, California's clean-tech sector is a rare bright spot in a state that is struggling with economic problems. California...
...fourth poorest country in Latin America, Honduras’ pre-coup government had been seeking support for a national referendum that, if held and supported, would have dramatically changed the fabric of the government, a move those in the coup did not want to succeed...
...rally was Mass. Power Shift’s first official event held at Harvard. “It’s good that we’re now established as a campaign here,” said event organizer Sophia Wen ’12, who is also a Crimson photography editor. “We can start being talked about...
...problem for Obama is that he has nowhere to send almost half of the 228 terror detainees still held by the U.S. at its naval base on the eastern end of Cuba. After a months-long scrub of the evidence against the prisoners, the Administration has decided that while most can be tried or sent to other countries, around 100 can't because the evidence against them is either inadmissible or classified. But these prisoners are too dangerous simply to release. The Administration hopes to be able to move those 100 or so detainees to prisons in the United States...