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...office, the Bush Administration has proposed a flurry of last-minute changes that will likely weaken several of the nation's environmental protections - and could remain well into the next presidency. If the changes make it into the Federal Register - the official record of Washington rules and regulations - by Nov. 20, they will take effect before Bush leaves office and can likely only be undone by a new Administration. "It will be a lasting challenge for the policymakers who will take the helm," says Vickie Patton, the deputy general counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund...
...exhausting months, Americans worried that Barack Obama might be too inexperienced to serve as President. On Nov. 4, a majority of voters decided that he is in fact "ready to lead"--or at least that he had better be. This suggests that Americans know their history. When it comes to presidential success, experience isn't all it's cracked...
...some families, the person who makes everything possible is the one who stands still. Barack Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham, who died on Nov. 3 at 86, was married to a man fueled by bluster and possibility, who moved the family five times before settling in Hawaii. Her daughter inherited that restlessness, marrying an African, then an Indonesian and building a life in Jakarta. And then there was the grandson who captured a nation's imagination...
Update Appended: Nov...
...clan made 20 L of moonshine to prepare to celebrate, and by the time midnight came around in Kenya on Nov. 4, all of it was gone and the Obamas of Kogelo in the Rift Valley were asleep. To be sure, a rainstorm had washed out much of the clan's festivities. But clearly no one was staying up to wait for the U.S. networks to declare a winner in that presidential race far away - be it their favorite relative or not. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree.) They will wait for daybreak - or a long-distance call...