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...buzz at the National Biodiesel Conference, which convenes in San Francisco on Feb. 1. Given how record diesel-fuel costs literally drove up food prices last year--tractors and delivery trucks run on diesel--suppliers hope the new Administration will consider jatropha as stimulus-worthy as wind or solar power...
...creativity isn't the problem in places like this gorgeous, wind-strafed corner of Minnesota, where clergy are trying out several innovative ways to keep God in the heartland. The fertile, Scandinavian-settled farm towns in the Red River Valley were the models for Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon; for decades, thousands of farmers comfortably worked 80-acre lots and prayed in small, ethnically uniform churches. But starting in the 1970s, Wobegon was hit with sinking commodity prices and job-cutting farm technology, a combo that sharply reduced the population. Churches foundered. But only in the past few years have...
Melhem, long a vocal critic of U.S. Middle East policy, says he was touched by Obama's conciliatory tone and references to his Muslim roots. "You can feel the authenticity about him," he says. "The interview was his way of saying, 'There is a new wind coming from Washington.' Barack Obama definitely sees the world differently from a man named George W. Bush...
...more than three decades, liberal evangelical leader Jim Wallis has been stubbornly preaching into the wind, telling fellow evangelicals that they need to do something about poverty and urging fellow liberals to partner with religious communities. Now, after years of being drowned out by the Religious Right, Wallis finds himself a most unusual position: he has the ear of the man in the Oval Office. Wallis was one of a small group of religious leaders who participated in the national prayer service that followed Barack Obama's Inauguration. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, believes the "fruits" of torture will be inadmissible in any new trials. As a result, some detainees held for major acts of terrorism, like the 9/11 attacks, may have to be tried for lesser charges. Says Fidell: "We may wind up in the not entirely satisfying prospect of prosecuting people for offenses other than the things most on our minds - like 9/11 and surrounding claims...