When I had the interview Greensburg mom Sharon Schmidt she sounded tired. Much like you’d expect a mom who has been through a lot recently, putting her life back together while ensuring her son has the best possible experience as a high school junior despite the fact that their entire town has been rebuilding from a tornado that took it off the map.
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Solar rooftop installations just got a lot easier: Lumeta, a subsidiary of construction heavyweight DRI, has developed a solar panel sticker -- the Power-Ply 380. The company says its convenient peel-and-stick solar technology allows it to be installed almost twice as fast as regular rack-mounted panels -- a claim put to the test in the above video...
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you'd be hard-pressed to miss the continuous stream of news stories describing the threat posed by the world's dwindling reserves of freshwater. With some talking up the potential for water becoming the next "oil," it has become imperative for international NGOs and governments to focus their energy on forestalling a global crisis that could devastate developing countries. Fortunately, the WWF and Na read more »
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AP - NEW YORK (AP) Television heads into its biggest week with the hangover from a 100-day writers strike persisting.
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AP - "Speed Racer" was lapped in its opening weekend at the box office as "Iron Man" continued to fire its jets with $50.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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AP - Jimmy Fallon will officially be given the keys to NBC's "Late Night" franchise following Conan O'Brien's exit.
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Politico - BEND, Ore. -- When the election returns filter in Tuesday from West Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama won't be there. Nor will he leapfrog ahead to a later primary state, as he usually does on election nights.
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AP - The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the political lexicon pregnant, hanging and otherwise.
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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton toured the birthplace of Mother's Day in rural West Virginia, offering Democrats a subtle reminder Sunday that her fading candidacy remains strong among women and blue-collar, white voters.
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AP - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies one of the first international shipments sank on its way to the disaster zone.
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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win.
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AP - Search crews combed debris-strewn fields for possible tornado victims Sunday as residents picked through the remains of homes demolished by storms that smashed through the Plains and South, killing at least 21 people in three states.
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The "Tigris Woods Country Club" as envisioned by the Pentagon's planners.
How do you rehabilitate a city that has suffered from half a decade of bombings, lootings, sectarian violence, terrorism, military occupation, large-scale infrastructure failure, curfews and all the horrors of some post-apocalyptic Hollywood blockbuster? According to the Pentagon, pimp it out with the most fantastic amenities that money can buy, and put them all inside one centrally-located, gated waterf read more »
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The upshot of the record gas prices we're seeing has been the sometimes meteoric rise in the number of drivers switching over to public transit. And, as we learn today from a prominent piece in the NYT, it's become a national trend — one that has especially picked up steam in many of the Southwest's car-happy metropolitan areas (hi Los Angeles). Indeed, as another recent read more »
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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) study results can seem counter-intuitive, even preposterous, until one spends hours pouring over the details. That said: it's generally possible to find a take-away message that makes immediate sense. A recently published LCA study - Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from plug-in hybrid vehicles: Implications for policy - makes especially timely, important points about the fit of coal fired electricity and Plug-In Hybrid vehicle use in N read more »
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AP - ATLANTA (AP) Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as "Miss Lillian" did on those visits.
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AP - An actor in "The Little Mermaid" broke his wrists after falling at least 20 feet through a trap door to the stage minutes before a performance of the popular Broadway production, authorities said.
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AP - Lay on Macduff and Banquo, too.
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AP - No constituency is more eager to see a woman win the presidency than America's feminists, yet despite Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic candidacy the women's movement finds itself wrenchingly divided over the Democratic race as it heads toward the finish.
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