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...earlier this year, Palin missed an opportunity to help the US mainland obtain billions of cubic feet of natural gas from Alaska's Cook Inlet. Her support of an effort by major energy producers to export the fuel to more lucrative markets in Asia came just as a facility that will provide the first practical way to bring the state's natural gas to the lower 48 states was set to open on the Baja coast in Mexico...
According to Senator Ron Wyden, the Alaskan gas slated for Asia between 2009 and 2011 could meet the annual consumption of 1.4 million American families. The Oregon Democrat has accused Palin of a "major contradiction" between her support for gas exports and campaign emphasis on more drilling to slake US energy needs. "It's pretty outrageous to scare Americans about energy shortages while she has been approving export of billions of cubic feet of natural gas that could be providing energy to homes in Alaska and the lower 48 states," he said...
...effects of the crunch, together with rising costs of food, energy, and construction, and increased congressional scrutiny of spending at major universities, have led to increased budgetary concerns, Smith said...
...your major allies has been the advocacy group The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Tell me about how you first got involved with them. The Alliance has been the instrument of many, many good things. Our daughter was 17, going on 18, when she began showing symptoms of [schizophrenia]. We started stopping by their meetings after work and we quickly found out that, in spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them...
McCain, John •announcement of intent to Swiftboat Obama is for some bizarre reason made by campaign of •Blitzer discerns "some disdain" for Obama by •claims to possess the necessary knowledge to solve all of the nation's major problems •erratic aviation record of •fellow citizens of are addressed as "fellow prisoners" of by •frightening noise is emitted by •Obama's "touchiness" and proclivity for "angry insults" are cited without any sense of irony by •Obama is contemptuously referred to as "that one" by •Obama's support for overhead planetarium projector...