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...matter how aggressively the U.S. tackles its carbon problem, the global outlook hinges on the coal-fired economies of the world's two looming giants: China and India. Between 1990 and 2004, energy consumption rose 37% in India and 53% in China. Beijing is building new coal-fired power plants at the startling rate of one every week. While the most technologically sophisticated coal plants operate at almost 45% efficiency, China's top out at just...
...attack opened at 4 a.m. when seven Chinooks, four Black Hawks and two Apache gunships rose as one from the U.S. forward operating base and descended on Qubah. At the same time, a convoy of humvees and Bradleys rumbled toward the action. More than 200 troops emerged from the choppers at the edge of Qubah, and the Apaches began strafing targeted insurgent positions. Street fights broke out as insurgents caught sight of the Americans. Qubah was largely secured not long after daybreak, with U.S. soldiers marking numbers on the necks of men and hands of women to keep track...
...city into areas where they have found roles in ongoing battles, launched new assaults on U.S. and Iraqi troops and infected the civilian population with sectarian hate. Colonel David Sutherland, commander of U.S. forces in Diyala province, says small-arms attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces there rose from 33 in July to 98 in February. Last July had just three suicide bombings in the province; this month there were five in one week, including one at a U.S. patrol base in the valley that killed one soldier and wounded 16 others. On certain streets in Buhriz...
...white and blue. All Americans want the same basic things: a good job at good pay, affordable health insurance for themselves and their families, quality education for their children, economic security in old age. We can achieve all of this. In our country's past, we rose to greater challenges: we ended slavery, won World Wars, eradicated polio, put men on the moon. The New American Story is telling us that we can, once again, make great things happen...
Admission of foreign nationals rose above last year’s 8.7 percent, coming in at 9.1 percent this year. In total, foreign citizens, students with dual citizenship with the U.S. and another country, and U.S. permanent residents constitute approximately 19 percent of the admitted class, about the same as last year. The geographic distribution of students accepted from within the United States also remained similar to previous years...