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...after all, what can we do about it? But this is the moment when we need to keep pushing in every way we can. The technologies that will help us decarbonize energy are developing, but they need a push - and that will only happen if we keep climate change near the top of our political agenda. Earth Hour, Earth Day, Earth Year - we'll need...
...haven't been able to get over what they lost in the tsunami," says Hidayat, a stocky 46-year-old with a square jaw and flat-top hairstyle. Yet, just over three years on, Hidayat has managed to pull his life together, remarrying and starting a small coffee stand near the capital's main port with seed money from an NGO. Like Hidayat, too, the province is feeling its way back to normalcy. Pipes for clean water are being laid, swampland converted into shrimp farms, and hotels built for the NGO workers remaining in the area...
...main parties--pitched a tent in the courtyard of the town's temple. Buddhism is central to life in this tiny Himalayan kingdom, and temple grounds are regularly used for town meetings. Just then, a local election official called with news: no political party could hold a meeting near a temple, since the brand-new draft constitution separates church and state, much as the U.S.'s does. The party organizer argued that the choice of venue had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the temple's nice lawn and handy power outlets. But a rule...
...Three Democratic staffers present at the markup that day say they were convinced that McCain had proposed the last-minute amendment because of pressure from Alcalde, whom they remember as being seated near the front of the room. "At any given time, there are 100 different amendments to the Communications Act that John McCain believes in," noted a staffer. "He happened to do the one that was being pushed by the people who were raising money for him and whose representative was sitting in the third row." (Through a spokesman, McCain says he never expected the amendment to be accepted...
...crackling gunfire of AK-47s could be heard near the eastern edge of the Green Zone Thursday morning, and rockets landed in the neighborhoods of Salhiyya, Karada, and al-Allawi. An Iraqi police source told TIME that a car bomb had also been detonated outside a hospital in Andalus Square in central Baghdad. In the district of Khadamiya, a joint American and Iraqi force fought a gun battle Thursday afternoon against armed militants. And local media reported that unidentified gunmen had kidnapped government civilian spokesman for security, Tahsin al-Sheikli, from his home in the al-Amin district of Baghdad...