Water, not oil, is the most precious fluid in our lives, the substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources
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The CIA Gets a Rare Public Victory
As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death moves from exhilarating novelty to accepted reality, one group in the U.S. government will emerge as key to the win: the Central Intelligence Agency
What They’re Saying About the War
France: In Search of Bin Laden’s Urologist Osama Bin Laden may be in less danger from smart bombs than from kidney stones, according to a report in the French daily Le Figaro.
Afghan Prison Break: Will It Hurt U.S. Strategy?
The Taliban executed a daring prison break in Kandahar early Monday morning, when at least 476 political prisoners and another 125 other inmates escaped through a 1,050 ft. long tunnel, U.S.
A New Clean Economy — With Old Sources of Energy
Since his election, President Barack Obama has emphasized the importance of developing new sources of energy and cultivating the jobs that will come with them. “I am convinced that whoever builds a clean energy economy, whoever is at the forefront of that, is going to own the 21st-century global economy,” Obama told a bipartisan meeting of governors at the White House on Wednesday
Report: Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Rates Rise in New Trend
Pregnancy rates among U.S. teenagers, which had been dropping since 1990, took an upturn in 2006, according to newly released data
Undeterred by Japan, Earthquake-Prone Indonesia Pursues Nuclear Power
Rising alarm at the spread of radiation throughout Japan’s water supply has not deterred one of its major trading partners from going ahead with its nuclear ambitions. Indonesia’s National Nuclear Energy Agency, also known as Batan, announced on Monday that it had narrowed down the list of bidders for a feasibility study it plans to conduct for two nuclear reactors.
Pirates may have captured couple, yacht
Naval forces from several countries were searching Tuesday for a British couple and their missing yacht, which may have been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Africa, military sources told CNN.
How Obama’s Secret Iran Talks Set Stage for a Nuclear Deal
President Barack Obama has a personal stake in the outcome of Monday’s meeting in Vienna between Western and Iranian nuclear experts on the future of Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium.
Israel out of NATO event because of Gaza, Turkish official says
Turkey excluded Israel from a planned NATO military exercise partly because of Turkey’s criticism of Israel’s Gaza offensive nearly a year ago, Turkey’s foreign minister told CNN on Sunday.