Word: homely
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...attracted $3 of every $5 invested in U.S. clean tech - five times as much as the No. 2 state. It's by far the national leader in green jobs, green patents, supply from renewables and savings from efficiency. It's also leading the way toward electric cars, zero-emission homes, advanced biofuels and a smarter grid: its electric utilities plan to install smart meters in every California home. It's even launched a belated battle against car-dependent sprawl, with unprecedented rules forcing communities to consider carbon emissions in their land-use plans...
...Then again, the home state of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan has been a conservative trendsetter as well, leading the backlash against taxes, affirmative action and illegal aliens and enacting the first three-strikes law against career criminals. Its economy is much closer than the nation's to a true model of free-enterprise capitalism, in which government sets rules and enforces a level playing field but declines to pick winners. And what could be more Californian than the conservative megapastor Rick Warren urging his multimedia flock to make a fresh start with a forgiving God? "A clean slate...
...away from Mexicans. They also study a special Bible authored by their leader, Nazario Moreno, a.k.a. El Más Loco, or "The Craziest One." The cartel's profits have helped it build a large network of support among the poor in Michoacán, which is also the home state of Mexican President Felipe Calder...
...borders, crossing numerous countries without detection. Many of them attempt to make it Britain, where they speak the language and have relatives. Those who are caught along the way are either sent back to their first European point of entry or put in detention camps awaiting deportation to their home country. Depending on which country they're in, the differences in treatment can be huge. "You can have two people with exactly the same story, and in one country there is less than a 1% chance of getting asylum, and in another country there's a 95% chance," says Gilles...
...tourist might have mistaken it for an innocuous conversational gambit, but to a longtime London resident, the cabbie's query - "Are you heading home to watch Question Time?" - was politically charged...