If you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two claims.
Before he departed China, Barack Obama gave an interview to the Southern Weekend newspaper, one of China's few outspoken and crusading titles.
We tend to imagine China as a monolith: 1.3 billion people sharing the same language, history, and culture. The truth is far more interesting. China is a mosaic of several distinct regions, each with its own resources, dynamics, and historical character.
... The U.S. may be one of the world's oldest capitalist countries and China one of the youngest, but you couldn't blame Obama if he leaned over to Hu at some point and asked, "What are you guys doing right?"
In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United States.
Being a vegan or a vegetarian for that matter doesn't come with its own set of continuous obstacles. The first being, you need to tell the carnivorous majority that you've decided eating meat is a no-no and that from now on you'd appreciate if they'd respect that.
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So you think you're vegan? Think you have strong convictions? Ok don't worry too much, you probably do, but just how tempting is a bar of chocolate or a tub of ice-cream when you've just had the worst day of your life? How hard is it to say to friends and family at a hol …
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The following is based on a true story, and before you even think about laughing at the sorry state of mind of the person who has written it, which happens to be me, please think twice, cause what goes around comes around.
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15 years after Apartheid's end, South African students still struggle with its dark legacy...
AFGHANS loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fake polling sites where no one voted but hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded for the President in last month's election, reports said yesterday.
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