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...other ways, though, Etown feels like a throwback to a time when musicians played with a social conscience and music could effect political change. But what's clear is that show's gradual success mirrors the growth of environmental thinking nationally in the U.S. - a process that might reach a peak at the Democratic Convention, where energy and the environment will be higher on the political agenda than ever before. Ultimately, whether or not delegates offset their carbon emissions or bike around Denver in the August heat will matter less than whether 2008 marks the moment that environmentalism truly enters...
...Chinese man at Beijing's Drum Tower. McCutheon left the team to be with his family, who flew back to the U.S. early last week. He returned on Aug. 17. Improbably and imperceptibly, the U.S. men worked its way through its draw, then beat Serbia in five sets to reach the semifinals. A win would secure the U.S. its first medal since 1992 and first shot at gold since the Seoul Games of 1988, when the Soviet Union still existed...
...reform campaign-finance laws and require police to videotape interrogations. Obama worked his colleagues one by one, on the floor, on the basketball court, at the poker table, and managed to pass some difficult legislation. "He's unique in his ability to deal with extremely complex issues, to reach across the aisle and to deal with diverse people" one Republican colleague, McCain supporter Kirk Dillard, told the Wall Street Journal...
...limits on the volatile agents in glue, pretty much restricting players to a water-based compound that doesn't have the same springy effect. "A lot of players are complaining about the glue," said Chen Wang, the US's top-ranked women's player and the first American to reach the quarterfinals in Olympic competition, "because the glue has no power, the ball drops...
...with recalcitrant insurgents like Commander Bravo determined to continue their armed struggle - and government police and soldiers deploying to meet them in battle - that could mean that the prospect of peace in the Philippines' violent south has slipped even further from reach...