Tag: politics correspondent
member name: Ethan G.
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January 31, 2007 09:57 AM EST --
The first reaction to news of a grievous illness is often denial. We don’t want to face suffering, don’t want to go on a regime of healing, and certainly . . .
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January 29, 2009 11:48 AM EST --
Obama is fast finding out that you can't negotiate with fanatics, such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and House Republicans.
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June 18, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
My wife and I have just moved to a tiny house, part of a pattern of shrinking we’ve been going through. When we lived in Indiana rent was cheap and we had an enormous apartment with space that . . .
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July 29, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
Scorching heat, swarming insects, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, drought, fever. These could be coming soon to a neighborhood near you
Scientists warn that extreme weather events are likely to . . .
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August 13, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
The United States is full of technological nooks and crannies, bright new ideas and old ones that have never been fully utilized, oodles of potential innovation. An idea is useless, however, unless . . .
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September 10, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
When I was a teenager, in an Indiana town, we had a unique way of getting around: walking and bicycling. This was in the days when there were relatively few cars, when kids would never think of getting . . .
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March 31, 2007 06:32 PM EDT --
The purpose of an editorial page is to debate the great issues of the day. And surely one of the greatest issues of the 21st century is, and will increasingly be, global climate change. In . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
A sizzling fajita, piled with grilled steak, chicken, and shrimp, sends a lustful burst of yearning through me, just before I gobble it down. True, I feel a bit sick if I think about the bloody . . .
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October 08, 2007 07:04 PM EDT --
This past weekend I embarked on a tour of solar homes in the Washington, DC area, which lets you see how real people use trend-setting environmental technology. The tour’s most prominent feature . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
The environment doesn’t recognize international boundaries. Vast dust storms from China blow over neighboring countries and reach as far as the United States. Israel and neighboring . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The U.S. Senate is debating a major environmental bill: The Climate Security Act. Unfortunately this bill is fatally flawed because it uses the convoluted, easily manipulated cap-and-trade process . . .
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September 15, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
Energy independence and green energy are often referred to as though they are the same thing. However this is far from the truth. True, if we have 100 percent green energy we have energy independence, . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ). Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . .
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September 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
The house passed an energy bill last night: http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/09/17.php#21306. I don't know all the details, but I know that it allows offshore drilling, extends renewable energy . . .
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April 07, 2008 02:58 PM EDT --
My wife and I recently had the privilege of viewing our four legged hopping friends in all of their diversity at the exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, at the National Geographic Museum (in downtown . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
The fight against cataclysmic global climate change and for energy independence has many fronts. Innovative technologies are being developed by businesses large and small. One such company . . .
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