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...myriad emotions Britons Kate and Gerry McCann have experienced since the disappearance 14 months ago of their daughter Madeleine, add a tinge of relief: not at any breakthrough in the mystery over what happened to the toddler - who vanished nine days before her fourth birthday while vacationing with her parents in Portugal - but to news, instead, that they're no longer suspected of involvement in her disappearance...
...Greens support alternative energy, like wind or solar, because it helps de-carbonize our energy supply and reduce pollution. Skeptics support it because with rocketing fossil fuel prices - and the U.S.'s increasing dependence on oil imported from less-than-friendly regimes - renewables can offer homegrown, politically safe price relief. It's a win-win in a world that seems ever more zero...
...Nintendo isn't obliged to do anything except enjoy the free marketing ride it's getting from all the Wiimote noise. Still, many might wonder why a corporation that had more than $16 billion in sales last year won't give a mom-and-pop concern like Fobis some relief...
...Dalai Lama protesters, Kelsan Pema, who is British, has a Tibetan name and is the spokeswoman for the Western Shugden Society, "If this is what the Dalai Lama's people do to us in America, can you imagine what they would have done somewhere else?" The combination of adrenaline, relief and the prospect of coverage left her sounding almost elated...
...Iowa River, which took in over nine feet of water. "It was awful to see 20 to 30 years of stuff lying in your driveway," Thorn says, but adds, "that's over with. So we get to start over again." Thorn, who did have flood insurance, praises the disaster relief effort so far. "The folks that I've dealt with, although there's been no resolution, have been terrific," he says...