3.13.2012
Biden: Obama would have been "one-term president" if bin Laden mission had failed CBS News
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(Credit: CBS News) If the US forces who took out Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan compound last May had failed, President Obama would likely have been a "one-term president," his vice president, Joe Biden, told donors Monday night.
Baby in Womb planetsave
Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:25 AM PDT
Remember those old “Baby on Board” signs placed on car windows and bumper stickers? Sometimes they said “Baby in Car,” and their message, which went worldwide in over 35 languages, was to drive carefully and pay attention to the cars around you, especially this car with a baby infant seated inside it.
Now comes the [...]
Obama Campaign Fears Uphill Climb Raising 'Super PAC' Money New York Times
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The warning came from David Plouffe, President Obama's top political adviser: The Koch brothers and Republican “super PACs” have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat Mr.
Solar, Wind, and Biofuels Markets Rise 31 Percent to $246.1 Billion Despite ... marketwatch
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by NAW Staff on Tuesday 13 March 2012 Clean energy markets - especially for wind and solar power - continued to expand rapidly in 2011, even against a tough economic and political climate, increased industry consolidation and downward pricing pressure ...
US wind generation increases by 27 percent Power Engineering Mag
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Washington, March 13 -- : Wind generation in the US increased by 27 percent in 2011 as compared with 2010, continuing a trend of rapid growth, the government said Monday.
Climate change could increase fires, logging, and hunting in rainforests Mongabay.com
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The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Five poverty-fighting women to watch Christian Science Monitor
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They're creating innovative new ways for women - and men - to lift themselves out of poverty. By Kyla Springer, Global Envision / March 13, 2012 CEO and founder of Samasource Leila Janah takes part in a session during the Clinton Global Initiative in ...
UN report warns that global water scarcity will worsen as food demand grows Boston Globe
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has said food output must rise 70 percent by 2050 to feed a world population expected to grow to 9.3 billion from 7 billion now and as increasingly rich consumers in developing economies eat more meat.
World Water Forum: Water crisis is looming GlobalPost
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The discussion at the 6th annual Water Forum in Marseilles has been focused on claims that the world's water supply is being strained by climate change and population growth. A boy fishes with a net in the lagoon in Ganvie, near Cotonou, Benin.
The need for women's empowerment The Guardian
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Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute points to the potential impact on female empowerment of access to family planning services: "There are 215 million women in the world today who want to plan their familes but who do not have access ...
Al Gore, Sean Parker call for 'Occupy Democracy' movement online Los Angeles Times
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Former Vice President Al Gore and online entrepreneur Sean Parker gave an overflow crowd at the South by Southwest trade show a pep talk Monday on the need to reform the political system, which Gore said is dominated by corporate interests.
Florida farmworkers end hunger strike, but continue to press supermarket chain ... Free Speech Radio News
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After six days without food, dozens of farmworkers and supporters in Florida ended their week-long hunger strike outside the entrance of the Publix Supermarket Corporate Headquarters in Lakeland on Saturday.
Hunger strike called off after 13 days, students to move High Court Indian Express
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Student activist Sidharth Sharma, who had been on hunger strike for the last 13 days, protesting against fees charged from reserved category students, called off his strike on Monday evening.
Turkey PM Erdogan: "a massacre has been committed slowly but systematically in Palestine since the beginning of the 20th century."
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Erdogan said, "a massacre has been committed slowly but systematically in Palestine since the beginning of the 20th century.
WOW: Review: The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans Foreign Policy Journal
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However, I was quite amazed at this work, and found it an excellent read in its own right, as well as a wonderful source and resource book on Palestine and questions related to Palestine. It is a user-friendly composite of history, ...
Springlike 80 degrees for Chicago in last week Chicago Sun-Times of winter
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To set one new temperature record is a comparatively rare event - but to set four of them over seven days is truly one for the books.
Poll: 7 in 10 Americans want to outlaw super PACs USA TODAY
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By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY Americans aren't in love with super PACs, the new independent groups that are transforming the 2012 presidential election.
Oil and Gas Ind War on US: API sues EPA over biofuelsUPI.com
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An oil and gas industry trade association asked a federal appeals court to review a US Environmental Protection Agency regulation governing fuel additives including biological materials.
Climate change threatens Seychelles habitat Mother Nature Network
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Organizations are helping fight climate change in the tiny nation, the only one in the world where 50 percent of the land is a nature reserve.
Rick Santorum: 'Tell That To A Plant, me, for example, How Dangerous Carbon Dioxide Is' (VIDEO) Huffington Post
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Back in early February, he targeted Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for allegedly buying into the "bogus" science of man-made climate change.
Climate-change skeptics paid by U.S. think-tank The Province
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By Mike Desouza, Postmedia News March 12, 2012 9:00 PM Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent refuses to comment on revelations that climate-change skeptics in Canada are get-ting money from an American think-tank funded by corporations.
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