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...Credit Where It's Due I have been a subscriber for almost 40 years and rarely have I been as disappointed with the magazine as I was with your paltry single page devoted to the Indian elections [June 1]. And it was a page that belittled India's achievement in holding the world's largest ever election, with minimal disruption and violence, and no controversies (à la hanging or pregnant chads). This election is a beacon of hope in a region that only seems to produce bad news from Nepal to Sri Lanka, Afghanistan to Burma. No wonder India...
...James Calvert, 88, served as commander of the U.S.S. Skate, a 265-ft.-long nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel became the first to surface at the North Pole, a feat that made front-page news amid the tensions of the Cold...
...upon entering the Oval Office. He famously broke ties last year with Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor, and resigned his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. So, just as he followed Bush's lead in choosing Evergreen as a church home, the President is taking a page from Clinton's playbook on this front: Obama has a small group of pastors he contacts for prayer and spiritual support (including two men who played the same role at times for Bush...
...Senate, where the virtual requirement for 60 votes means that passage will be even more difficult, it's far less clear that Waxman-Markey is strong enough to meet the long-term threat of global warming. The sheer difficulty of the negotiations that produced this 1,300-page bill - and the fact that despite weeks of compromises, it barely passed - demonstrates that Waxman-Markey might be as good as the greens can get. But it might not be good enough for a warming planet. "This won't get us to where we need to go," says Michael Shellenberger, the president...
...more than 1,200-page bill, known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, would give away carbon credits to energy aggregators, producers, refiners and others - a financial boon worth more than $600 billion - to help offset costs for consumers. The Administration initially envisioned auctioning off the credits to raise money for green jobs and other Obama priorities, but that idea was met with stiff resistance from the business community...