Word: vitalize
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...scientific renaissance is exactly what the battle against climate change needs. As Kimberlin says: "We don't have an energy crisis; we have an imagination crisis." Solving global warming will require changes in the way we live and use energy, but even more vital are technological leaps in clean technology that must be every bit as revolutionary as Edison's incandescent bulb. Spencer Trask and the Rockefeller Foundation have inundated InnoCentive with an array of challenges in clean tech - including a call for a new kind of electricity-free light bulb that would make Edison's invention obsolete. "We want...
...presidency after a dodgy Supreme Court decision. But after 2004, that excuse no longer worked and there is some evidence to suggest that anti-Bushism turned into a broader anti-Americanism. So for many non-Americans this year's elections are the last-chance do-over. "This is a vital election, more than normal," says Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid. "It's vital for all of us, and for the Muslim world even more so. [The new Administration] will have to set a new world agenda because the Bush agenda is totally bankrupt. It's a landmark point...
...Clinton. Her voice is too shrill, her laughter too loud and her tears too easy. Who cares about her profound knowledge of the issues, her long experience with Washington's maze and ways, and her useful insight into the Republicans' bag of tricks? Yet such substantial qualities are vital in the final race to the White House. Confronted with the Republican candidate in a nationwide election, Obama won't stand a chance. Herman D'Hollander, Antwerp, Belgium...
...Clinton. Her voice is too shrill, her laughter too loud and her tears too easy. Who cares about her profound knowledge of the issues, her long experience with Washington's maze and ways, and her useful insight into the Republicans' bag of tricks? Yet such substantial qualities are vital in the final race to the White House. Confronted with the Republican candidate in a nationwide election, Obama won't stand a chance. Herman D'Hollander, ANTWERP, BELGIUM...
That changed with the 1981 near-assassination of John Paul II by a Turkish gunman. According to The Last Secret, it was while in the hospital recuperating from a bullet that had improbably bypassed his most vital organs that John Paul first asked to be shown Lucia's third secret, and in it read these words: "We saw... a Bishop dressed in white," who reminded the children of "the Holy Father... killed by group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows...