China PostWashington Post Unforgettable Winner of 2008 Pulitzer PrizeseFluxMedia - 44 minutes agoBy Michael Todd The Washington Post was the big read more »
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AP - Recently sworn-in U.S. citizen Craig Ferguson is being embraced by his new countrymen: The late-night comic hit a ratings milestone last week with his first victory over NBC's Conan O'Brien. read more »
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AP - Republican John McCain defended his latest plan to help some homeowners pay their mortgages, saying Friday it was not a reversal of his earlier opposition to aggressive intervention by the government. read more »
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AP - A woman's lawsuit against two paparazzi and the photo agency allegedly responsible for the video of Heath Ledger at a West Hollywood hotel room says the late actor was using cocaine that night. read more »
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AP - The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq "is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it," a Democratic congressman said Saturday. read more »
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A big step towards the future of tidal power has been taken. The SeaGen tidal energy converter, an upside-down-windmill structure weighing over 1000 tons, has been successfully set into the water off of Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough by parent company Marine Current Turbines. Will Northern Ireland become the "Saudi Arabia of marine energy"? Or will the curse of the Titanic strike another behemoth emerging from the Belford docks?...


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AP - A private business groups says that its index of leading economic indicators rose Friday, reversing five months of decline. But the indicators are down significantly from a year ago, leaving recession fears festering. read more »
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Feliciano dos Santos accepts the Ouroboros trophy from Richard Goldman at the 2008 Goldman Prize ceremony held earlier this month in San Francisco. A second ceremony was held in Washington, D.C.

The following post was written by Claire Alexander, vice president of Operations & Interactive Media for Planet Green, and TreeHugger's woman on the ground at the Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony in Washington, D.C. earlier this week.

More than 500 people came out to reco read more »
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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama swapped some of the most negative attacks of the campaign two days before the Pennsylvania primary, each unleashing television ads on Sunday that accused the other of maintaining ties to special interests they both claim to reject. read more »
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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama collided Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, the last of the big-state contests in a Democratic presidential campaign that was growing more negative the longer it lasted. read more »
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AP - An Iraqi delegation traveled to Iran with evidence that proves the Islamic republic is arming and training of Shiite militias in Iraq, an official said Thursday. read more »
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Just in case you haven’t noticed your Google Pagerank lately, it is currently being updated as I type.
I was typing the last post in this blog a few minutes ago and noticed that it now has a Pagerank of 2. That’s twice of what it was at 1. The reason it’s only a 2 [...] read more »
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AP - Billionaire Warren Buffett's shareholders always look forward to the time he spends answering questions at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, a chance to learn from one of the world's most successful investors. read more »
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Another milestone for Tesla Motors, the maker of the Tesla Roadster Electric Car: Their Santa-Monica store has opened its doors yesterday. It should soon be followed by one in Silicon Valley.

Tesla has also been doing a PR tour in Europe lately, showing off the Euro-spec version of the electric Roadster (300+hp with a 13,000rpm red-line, instead of the 248 hp listed for the US version). Now all they need is for more cars to be coming out of the assembly line. As we previo read more »
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Collin Dunn of TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com talks with Ben Harper about his passion for surfing and the preservation of our oceans....


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AP - It will be Whoopi and Tony. read more »
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Today, we quickly ran up to Home Depot in Glastonbury for a few things. I had to get some yard stuff, some more light bulbs and some little pine trees. I got seven Blue Spruces. Oh yeah, I also wanted to get some screwdriver bits.
What I really needed was some sort of an extender for [...] read more »
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AP - Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president. read more »
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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. read more »
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