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...move to hurl his loafers at the outgoing President will be remembered decades from now as a fitting send-off for a man and an Administration that brought tragedy to Iraq and shame to America. It took courage, wisdom and daring to pull off his stunt. Doug Canepa, Mill Valley, Calif...
...citizen participation. During the campaign, Obama's team vowed to create a "Craigslist for service" along the lines of the Obama campaign's social-networking site, MyBarackObama.com. "We believe that real change can only come from the bottom up," Obama said in late 2007 on a visit to Silicon Valley. "And technology empowers people to come together to make that change." Indeed, rather than centrally control the flow of information, USAService.org has opened itself up to users to post and organize their own events with minimal supervision.(Read "The Case for National Service...
...many experts doubt there ever will be. But now the idea of clean coal might be truly dead, buried beneath the 1.1 billion gallons of water mixed with toxic coal ash that on Dec. 22 burst through a dike next to the Kingston coal plant in the Tennessee Valley and blanketed several hundred acres of land, destroying nearby houses. The accident - which released 100 times more waste than the Exxon Valdez disaster - has polluted the waterways of Harriman, Tenn., with potentially dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic and mercury, and left much of the town uninhabitable. (See TIME...
...farming community of Lister is located in a picturesque valley hard on the U.S. border in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the shade of the Skimmerhorn Mountains. It lies roughly between Calgary and Spokane (the closest big town is Creston - pop. about 4,800). Founded by World War I veterans, Lister was always conspicuous for the dark secrets of many of its inhabitants. In the beginning, of course, these secrets were the simple memories of the horrors of war. But recent generations have struggled with more complex secrets centered on a farming settlement in a corner of Lister known...
Made up of as many as 1,000 adherents of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, Bountiful has been home to clans of polygamists since the arrival in the late 1940s of the homestead's founder, Harold Blackmore, who - according to one account - was drawn to the valley after envisioning it in a dream. Blackmore was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was expelled from mainstream Mormonism in the 1930s. For generations, local farmers co-existed with the polygamists of Bountiful. But this relationship, based on the country tenet "live and let live," grew increasingly...