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...fastest way to start a fistfight among environmentalists is to bring up the topic of biofuels - plant-based liquid fuels like ethanol that could potentially take the place of petroleum. Biofuel revolutionaries - like Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla - see plant power as a way to break America's dependence on foreign oil, and produce auto fuel that doesn't kill the climate. Opponents dismiss biofuels - most of which are currently distilled from crops like corn and sugar cane - as a blind alley, one that drives up food prices without saving the earth...
...Mathers, who shared classes with Pring-Wilson as a student in Russian studies, says he was “naturally” shocked when he found out the news. But Mathers says that during recent reunions with former classmates, the topic hasn’t come up. He says the case did not affect his Harvard experience...
...letters became a topic of discussion on a Wednesday morning conference call with Iowa pastors that was organized by the U.S. Pastor Council and several Christian leaders who have personally endorsed Huckabee. "It's literature kind of indicating that churches better not be involved in politics," said another letter recipient and Huckabee endorser, Pastor Terry Amann, of the Walnut Creek Community Church in Windsor Heights. The call included about 50 leaders, including bestselling Christian author Tim LaHaye, who also supports Huckabee...
...street, lined with policemen holding batons and wearing anti-riot gear, two teenagers out for a walk say they have also heard about a possible government connection to the attack but cannot offer any evidence to back up the claims. "My mother told me not to talk about this topic on my mobile or telephone because the government may tape it," says Hafiz Jamshaid, 18, a computer science student at a local college...
...wave of newspaper endorsements, including a nod from the local Des Moines Register, as well as rising polls in New Hampshire, where he has vowed to win the primary on January 8. But in Iowa, McCain cannot make it through a town hall without delicately addressing immigration, the topic that cost him his front-runner status last summer, when he prominently supported a bill that would give illegal immigrants a path to legal citizenship. "My friends, I learned a lesson," McCain told the crowd. "I got the message." Though he continues to support a path to citizenship, he now says...