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Most importantly, Palin can speak with credibility on energy, a top concern among voters . Last month, she signed plans to build a $26 billion natural gas pipeline, which she spent months negotiating. On the stump, she advocates drilling for oil in the Alaska Northern Wildlife Refuge, which most Americans favor. The McCain-Palin platform is calling for lower energy prices, and talking about people’s pocketbooks, not their Bibles...
...James Elsner, a meteorologist at Florida State University, analyzed satellite-derived data of tropical storms since 1981 and found that the maximum wind speeds of the strongest storms have increased significantly in the years since, with the most notable increases found in the North Atlantic and the northern Indian oceans. They believe that rising ocean temperatures - due to global warming - are one of the main causes behind that change. "There is a robust signal behind the shift to more intense hurricanes," says Judith Curry, chair of the school of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Hear...
...abundance of jungle animals is due to Rio's spectacular setting, caught between sea and serra, with the central hills and northern suburbs carved out of - and still split by - the Atlantic Forest. The western suburbs, meanwhile, are bordered by a swamp system whose most famous inhabitants are denoted by the area's indigenous name, Jacarepagua, or Alligator Harbor...
...After a failed coup attempts to unite the island with mainland Greece, Turkish forces occupy northern Cyprus...
...India STILL STRANDED Rescue workers estimate that half a million people remain stranded almost two weeks after monsoon rains caused the worst flooding in northern India in nearly 50 years. Government and humanitarian agencies are struggling to feed the hundreds of thousands of evacuees, especially those in Bihar, above, the country's most populated and poverty-stricken state...