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Earth Hour didn't suffer for a lack of gimmicks. Servers wearing glow-in-the-dark necklaces sold eco-tinis at bars and restaurants in Phoenix. A local yoga house in Michigan offered sessions by lamplight, and the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago arranged check-in by candlelight. All in all, the WWF estimated that tens of millions of people around the world participated in Earth Hour. Watching the lights wink off in major metropolitan areas now doubt looked impressive, but it's worth asking: What was the point? As Roberts himself noted, the energy saved by turning off the lights...
...Kilpatrick resigns or is found guilty of the charges before his term expires next year, he will be succeeded by Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr., 42, the well-regarded president of Detroit's city council who is, like the mayor, a scion of a powerful Michigan political family. In an interview with TIME Monday, Cockrel said that as long as Kilpatrick remains in office with the charges pending, "it will have an impact on how we're viewed around the world, by people who'll think twice about doing business in our city." Cockrel voted in favor of the city council...
...Michigan, which has 156 delegates, held its primary on January 15, and Clinton won handily, with 55% of the vote. But all the other major Democratic contenders had taken their name off the Michigan ballot. ("Uncommitted" came in second, with 40%.) And Florida, which has 210 delegates, voted on Jan. 29. All of the Democratic contenders were on the ballot, but had pledged not to campaign there. Clinton won with 50% of the vote, well ahead of Obama...
Obama's camp, which raised doubts about the reliability of the Michigan revote plan that Clinton's camp was pushing, has proposed that the candidates split the two states' delegates. On Thursday, former presidential contender Sen. Chris Dodd-who like Clinton had left his name on the Michigan ballot, and who now supports Obama-put out a statement declaring: "The best outcome is to come to an arrangement where the delegates are apportioned fairly between Senators Obama and Clinton, so the Michigan delegation can participate fully in the Denver convention." But Clinton almost immediately rejected that idea, telling reporters...
Both the candidates and the party have another reason to be wary of doing anything to alienate voters in Michigan and Florida: Both are key swing states in the November election...