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...profit from oil--we peaked in America in 1970 with 10 million bbl. a day. We're down to 5 [million bbl.] now. There will always be a place for oil, but we have to get over to the renewables, which are wind and solar, first. Those are assets that we have done nothing with in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for T. Boone Pickens | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...haven't got a lot either. I've got a big mortgage and I work really hard - 70 or 80 hours a week - and they take a helluva lot of tax from me. But I never seem to see much for it." At this moment, the chill wind feels like a dark foreboding for the nine-year prime ministership of Helen Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Step to the Right? | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...their native language in public, many of the 1978 changes to the state's constitution crystalized the renaissance in Hawaiian culture that included a resurgence in hula dancing and the practice of navigating canoes over thousands of miles of open ocean while relying on only the natural elements of wind, waves and stars - a technique known as "wayfaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Hawaii Rewrite Its Constitution — Again? | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...other forces. An ability to alter course without losing one's way is essential to presidential success. "I claim not to have controlled events," Abraham Lincoln wrote, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me." As the sailor President Franklin D. Roosevelt understood, only rarely does a fair wind blow squarely at the President's back. More typical is the gale blowing from dead ahead or the deceptively strong crosswind. Sometimes the best that one can do is inch forward at an angle while struggling to avoid running aground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama and McCain Would Lead | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...responded five minutes later, when Fucito sprinted down the right sideline, shook off defenders, and delivered a cross to junior Andre Akpan. His header past Providence goalie Tim Murray was Akpan’s seventh of the season.Buoyed by the newly-evened score and no longer going against the wind, Harvard came out on the attack in the second half. “Once we were able to run at them and open them up a little bit, then things started to come together,” Fucito said.Harvard began its onslaught three minutes into the half, as Fucito sent...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Providence No Match for No. 17 Harvard | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

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