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...Ward with the help of Home Depot's corporate foundation. Eventually the village will include five sustainable homes along with an 18-unit green apartment building and a community center. Three homes have been completed so far, including one that is serving as a de facto visitors center. The point of the project is not just to create greener homes for New Orleans' returning residents but also to provide training for the local building community in green standards. "That's one of the ways to make this kind of building more common and more affordable," says Petersen...
...first task will be the cause of Kennedy's life: health-care reform. Kerry has been watching the coverage following Kennedy's death, and he worries about progressives using Kennedy's passing as an excuse to dig in their heels on the inclusion of a public option, a key point of contention. Senate Republicans have said they will not vote for a bill with one in it, arguing that the creation of a public plan to compete with private insurers is the first step to socialized medicine; House progressives have said they will not vote for legislation without such...
...plan on the floor of the Senate," Kerry bristles. "Teddy would've probably found a way to have a vote, and if he'd lost the vote, he'd have moved on. That's how you legislate. You don't block. You don't stop anybody from expressing their point of view. You've got to move on, and then you live with the vote - I mean, that's what Teddy would do. And if there were absolutely no way of getting it done, Teddy would find a road. If it meant changing it or working it through...
...says, laughing. On his nearly 30,000-mile (48,000 km) journey, Perham subsisted on freeze-dried food and faced large waves, high winds and equipment failures. Along with the physical strain, he faced mental exhaustion brought on by isolation and sleep deprivation. At one point, he even had to turn off his tracking device when he reached pirate-infested waters to avoid being followed, as did the former holder of the title of youngest solo around-the-world sailor, American Zac Sunderland (who was older than Perham by several months...
This alarms U.S. officials, who point out that terrorist leaders have previously used peace deals to expand their influence. Such deals have been "abject failures that at the end of the day have made the security situation in parts of Pakistan worse," says a U.S. counterterrorism official. "Why the Pakistani government keeps returning to this strategy is a mystery." (See pictures of Pakistan beneath the surface...