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The Guardian reports a bold step forward in the race to find clean and abundant energy for our swiftly tilting planet: A demonstration of carbon capture technology--the first of its kind--is upon us. Starting next week, a power plant in Germany will serve as guinea pig for a $100...

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Why drill offshore when the real energy bonanza might be… in our landfills? Kate Kelland of Reuters has an intriguing dispatch on how high oil prices are convincing waste companies to scavenge through their rubbish dumps to find old plastic. In Britain alone, there's potentially $100 billion worth of tossed...

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A new political map has been drawn, says The New York Times:

With just over eight weeks left until Election Day, the two sides are settling into an unusually broad set of state-by-state face-off...

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Although the topline results don't make it obvious, it appears that John McCain had a fairly strong night of polling in the daily tracking polls, which are the only numbers we have to look at today.

The Gallup tracker now shows Barack Obama leading...


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Finishing up in St. Paul, TNR senior editor Michael Crowley and The Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart dish on the big strides Palin made at the RNC and how Obama must respond.

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Yesterday’s Washington Post reported that McCain wordsmith Mark Salter had been circulating drafts of last night's speech for eight weeks, meaning he’d been working on it for much longer. After hearing the final product, I can’t help ...

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I'd never heard of Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian immigrant who has just published her second book, They Must Be Stopped. It is a tocsin at the danger Muslim culture poses to liberalism, tolerance and democracy. Now, remember I didn't know this person existed until twenty minutes ago when I read...

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"Inexperience is no barrier, say admirers," reports an article by Andrew Ward in Friday's Financial Times. But there are also positive reasons.

One informant gave Ward another explanation for he he supports Governor Palin. "It seems she is a pretty headstrong...

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