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...hook for bailing out costly and dangerous nuclear-reactor projects when the loans used to finance those projects default," said Ben Schreiber, the climate- and energy-tax analyst for the Friends of the Earth, in a statement. "This is great news for Wall Street but a bad deal for Main Street...
...main concern about running in a hamburger suit? “It’s really important to be able to pee before and during a marathon,” he said. “I’m a little concerned about how that’s going to work...
...could form. Paramilitary Basiji prevented opposition leaders like former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi from attending the demonstrations; they attacked him and arrested and beat his son, according to Karroubi's family. "Their expectation of our capability was more realistic than our own," read a posting on the opposition's main website, rahesabz.com. "The people who prevented us from coming out have now had eight months of practice. Now we have to discuss other tactics and put all our minds together...
...next phase of the Green Movement, which has so far been strongest among Iran's urban middle classes. As the regime struggles with a mountain of government debt, unemployment and social subsidies, opposition organizers are sensing an opportunity to expand their base socially and geographically beyond the main cities. On Monday, Feb. 15, the head of the Iranian electricity-workers union said that more than 900,000 of its members are about to lose their jobs and that the country could face an electricity crisis and blackouts because the government - the main customer for Iran's electricity plants...
...Gainesville, Olympia - I felt like I could add to the community but not affect it. By taking the little bit I could afford to a place that had nothing, I felt like I could make a bigger difference." Johnston found an old Knights of Columbus building on Cairo's main drag and bought it in May for $24,000. Along with his girlfriend Adrienne Tootle, 25, and Zach Rapattoni, 24, he spent months making the building habitable. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...