Israelis were aghast, if not surprised, by the open advocacy of the destruction of Israel and the implied blame against the Jews for all the world's problems by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the United Nations General Assembly.
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]]> Fewer people curse the ever-present breeze that sweeps the treeless West Texas landscape these days, where the flat horizon has been overtaken by hundreds of wind turbines that produce electricity for distant city dwellers and new income for rural residen
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]]> Treasury Sec. Hank Paulson's $700 billion bailout plan now has a name: the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. But even as Capitol Hill debates TARP, few seem to have noticed the proposal item that puts taxpayers on the hook for future bailouts
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]]> Your roof, that is. A new study calculates that installing white roofs in the world's cities could offset 1.5 years of manmade carbon emissions, reports AAAS.
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]]> Investigators start search for fraud at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and AIG, sources say
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]]> Historically, there’s been a last-minute swing away from black candidates by white voters. Will Barack change things?
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]]> The offshore drilling ban that became a flash point in the U.S. presidential election looks set to expire next week after Democrats decided to drop the prohibition from a temporary spending bill that would keep the government running.
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]]> Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.
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]]> Ex-credit card employees tell all.
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]]> More than 800 Asian openbill storks, mostly chicks and juveniles, were killed as the banyan tree on which they were nesting collapsed in Assam in northern India.


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]]> U.S. congressional Democrats and Republicans plan to meet on Thursday to draft a final bipartisan Wall Street bailout bill, a Democratic source said on Wednesday night.
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]]> Ten days after Hurricane Ike, this devastated beach town reopened to residents Wednesday with stern warnings about what still lurks on the island — rotting cattle carcasses, snakes and swarms of mosquitoes — and what isn't there: drinking water, reliable
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]]> President George W. Bush warned on Wednesday that the United States was in the middle of a serious financial crisis that could push the economy into a long-term recession if the government did not act
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]]> Livni's rise suggests sexism is at bay here. Look again.
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]]> In advance of the Europe-India summit in Marseille next Monday, the European Parliament today passed a resolution calling on both parties to renew efforts to save the wild tiger, and to place the issue on the summit agenda.
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]]> The economic crisis and raw politics threatened to derail the first presidential debate as John McCain challenged Barack Obama to delay Friday's event to work on the financial crisis. Obama rebuffed the plea, saying presidents need to "deal with more than
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]]> Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Wednesday that will outlaw text messaging while driving, the governor's office said
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]]> With Sunday's premiere (Fox, 8 ET/PT), The Simpsons will tie Gunsmoke's record of 20 seasons on the air.
D'oh!
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]]> Efforts to tackle climate change could result in the creation of millions of new green jobs in the coming decades, according to a new report from the United Nations on the impact of the emerging global green economy
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]]> Congressional leaders and presidential candidates McCain and Obama meet with Bush administration officials. Although top lawmakers had earlier seemed close to a deal, an accord is proving elusive.
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]]> With a Wall Street bailout looming that will almost certainly limit CEO pay, some of the poster boys of the financial crisis have already fled the scene, taking millions of dollars in severance packages with them.
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]]> Washington Mutual Inc was closed by the U.S. government in by far the largest failure of a U.S. bank, and its banking assets were sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co for $1.9 billion.
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]]> Agreement announced early Thursday crumbles amid doubts on high cost
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]]> Climate change, habitat destruction and disease may kill off more than half of Europe's amphibians by 2050, according to scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
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Cities are being unfairly blamed for most of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions and this threatens efforts to tackle climate change, warns a study in the October 2008 issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization.
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]]> It is one of the key commitments in a draft climate change plan, which stops short of setting specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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]]> Democrats and Republicans seem certain to set aside objections to unprecedented federal intervention and approve a massive financial rescue plan soon.
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]]> Prosecutors have enough evidence to send two Congolese warlords accused of war crimes to trial but not on all charges, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said
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]]> Industrialized countries pledged more than $6.1 billion on Friday to international investment funds aimed at helping developing countries adopt cleaner technologies and mitigate growth in greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said
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]]> Stock index futures fell on Monday on signs the global credit crisis was intensifying as European authorities rescued two embattled banks and U.S. lawmakers prepared to vote on a $700 billion emergency bailout plan.
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]]> Rich nations' greenhouse gas emissions dipped for the first time in five years in 2006, easing 0.1 percent despite robust economic growth, a Reuters survey of the latest available information showed.
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]]> Europe is warming faster than the world average and governments need to invest to adapt to a changing climate set to turn the Mediterranean region arid and the north ever wetter, a study showed
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]]> Being sensitive to the environment is all well and good, but there can be another good reason to use green energy: cash in your pocket.
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]]> President Bush announces the inclusion of the Davidson Seamount, a dormant underwater volcano, in the protected area. Scientists say the action will help preserve unique sea life.
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]]> Global financial mayhem is dimming prospects for a strong new U.N. pact to fight climate change, but it might aid cheap green schemes such as insulating buildings to save energy, analysts said.
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]]> The U.S. Senate endorsed a revised $700 billion plan to tackle a financial crisis that has shaken world markets and drawn warnings of approaching economic catastrophe.
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]]> Australian scientists set sail on a voyage that could lead to better data from the Southern Ocean
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]]> Is John McCain exaggerating his past relationship with Sarah Palin?
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]]> As the House says no to the Wall Street rescue package, a former Wall Streeter explains why the plan was a bad deal.
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]]> Wind turbines do not drive birds from surrounding areas, British researchers said on Wednesday, in findings which could make it easier to build more wind farms.
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]]> The next time you spend a pretty penny on lotion, shampoo or cream that claims to be organic or natural, you may want to think twice. So-called "green" products are not always as beneficial as they seem.
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]]> A call to Action from Michael Moore
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]]> The Vice-Presidential Debate featured clashes between the two contenders on the issues of the economy and Iraq
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]]> Loose regulation, now blamed for ills ranging from the U.S. financial crisis to imports of tainted Chinese goods, is drawing increasing fire from opponents of the Bush administration's environment program.
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]]> Despite insisting several times during the first presidential debate that he had never won the U.S. Senate Miss Congeniality award due to his maverick, no-holds-barred legislating style, John McCain was recently revealed to have twice secured the much-cov
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]]> Congressman Jeff Flake on why the bailout bill failed and why Republicans are so at odds with one another.
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]]> You can surround yourself with beautiful native plants that will attract wildlife and allow you to observe an amazing array of wildlife every day. In doing so, you will be doing your part to restore the ecology of the land on which you live.
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