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Freezing to show warming trend (Alex Rodriguez)
CHERSKY, Russia — Sergei Zimov waded through knee-deep snow to reach a frozen lake where so much methane belches out of the melting permafrost that it spews from the ice like small geysers.
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A Warrior For Another Time (Mary Lyon)
Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust -- Ever since this campaign downshifted into high gear, I've been wishing it was like some sort of Time Traveler's Checkerboard. If we could plug some ...
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F.B.I. Raids Office of Special Counsel (David Stout)
WASHINGTON — The office of the official responsible for protecting federal workers from political interference was raided by F.B.I. agents on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether he ...
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House Votes To Subpoena Cheney's Chief Of Staff Addington (Think Progress)
(Think Progress) -- This morning, the House Judiciary Committee voted to subpoena David Addington, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, to compel him to testify about the administration’s ...
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The Risk Economy (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- As the West's industrial regime sputters toward a cheap-energy-crackup conclusion, there have been attempts to recast what our economy is actually about, how to account for ...
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Not The End Of The World (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- You know that things are beginning to heat up when both sides of a controversy declare victory at the same time. Over the last week or so, that’s happened in the peak oil ...
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Success Breeds Failure (Paul Krugman)
Cross your fingers, knock on wood: it’s possible, though by no means certain, that the worst of the financial crisis is over. That’s the good news. The bad news is that as markets stabilize, chances ...
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Rep.Frank Wants Answers on Jumbo Loan Inaction (CNNMoney)
Rep. Frank asks mortgage industry for answers on inaction following new jumbo loan standards.
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Oil Rises After Report Shows U.S. Services Industries Expanded (Robert Tuttle)
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose above $120 a barrel to a record in New York after a report showed that U.S. service industries expanded in April, signaling higher energy use.
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Fed Says `Historical Highs' of Banks Tighten Lending Standards (Scott Lanman)
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve said the proportion of U.S. banks making it tougher for companies and consumers to borrow approached a record in the past three months as the credit crunch ...
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Top Iraq Contractor Skirts US Taxes Offshore (Farah Stockman)
CAYMAN ISLANDS - Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal ...
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