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...seem to be treating alternative energy policy as somewhat less important than, say, passing resolutions to establish National Substitute Teacher Recognition Week (May 5-9). Eight times this year, the Senate has failed to pass legislation that would extend tax credits that encourage the development of the wind and solar industry, legislation that will expire at the end of December. (McCain, it should be noted, missed all eight of those votes - a record that doesn't jibe well with his campaign promises to pursue an aggressive alternative energy program along with offshore drilling.) Without those tax credits, the renewable energy...
...start immediately, when eight riders bunch up atop a three-story hill. At "go," expect a show. "You go 5 ft., then 'kink,' it drops almost straight down, about 60°," says Donny Robinson, the top-ranked rider for the U.S. men. "It's like going down a roller coaster, a 'just hang on' kind of thing." The racers will all be moving at 40 m.p.h., jostling for inside position. Calamities are commonplace: face it; that's part of the appeal. "Anyone here who tells you they haven't crashed is a liar," says fellow American Kyle Bennett...
...register for training. The strike in the town of Boumerdès, about 22 miles east of Algiers, came just hours after reports that an ambush by Islamist extremists on Sunday killed 12 people in eastern Algeria. That assault followed two earlier attacks in August that left eight dead and over 50 injured. Though the extremist Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has only claimed responsibility for one of those massacres, experts fear they were all part of an escalating campaign of terror activity by the organization, which may be aiming to make the approaching holy month of Ramadan particularly...
...December strikes near U.N. offices in Algiers bore a similar Al Qaeda earmark, experts say: while targeting foreigners, it maximized the death toll by claiming as many people from the local Muslim population as possible. By contrast, while the eight people killed and 19 injured in the August 10 suicide car bombing in the coastal town of Zemmouri el Bahri were all Algerian, AQIM claimed responsibility for the attack by describing its victims as "the sons of France and the slaves of America". The message being that anyone not supporting the AQIM cause - foreign or Muslim - represent the same enemy...
Karzai clearly believes that the growing violence in Afghanistan is the result of ISI support for the resurgent Taliban, a group whose regime was cultivated by the Pakistani spy agency until 9/11. During the past 24 hours, two waves of eight suicide bombers have attacked the U.S. base in Khost; and 10 French soldiers, part of the NATO force, have been killed in an ongoing battle near Kabul. In his interview, Karzai was sympathetic toward Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who has tried in vain to impose civilian control over the ISI. "Mr. Gilani is a good man," said...