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...also becoming the chief financier for the U.S. clean-energy sector, retooling a sclerotic department to shell out about $39 billion worth of short-term stimulus projects - nearly 150% of its normal annual budget - while reorienting its long-term research and development toward artificial photosynthesis, advanced batteries and other technologies he envisions as low-emissions "game changers." Chu plays up his geeky image - he gave Jon Stewart a Nerds of America Society T shirt on-air - but he's no ivory-tower ingenue. "Energy," he says, "is all about money." He cut his teeth in the entrepreneurial culture of Bell...
...relations to "unprecedented lows." Since coming to power in 2005 - after mass protests known as the Orange Revolution overturned a ballot rigged in favor of Moscow-backed candidate Viktor Yanukovych - Yushchenko has riled the Kremlin with his attempts to drag Ukraine away from Russia's sphere of influence and toward the West...
...After an extensive list of gripes, covering Ukraine's attempts to join NATO, its sale of weapons to Georgia, its interpretation of Soviet history and its attitude toward the Russian language, Medvedev announced that he was delaying the dispatch of the new Russian ambassador to Kiev until things improved...
...four years of tuition and fees and late-night snacks. Not only are families' budgets hammered, but a lot of college endowments have shrunk. Frankly, colleges should be insisting that students take a gap year after high school, for three reasons. One, students can spend the year earning money toward college. Two, they grow up during that time. And three, we taxpayers have been footing the bill for their education through high school, and it's time for them to maybe give back to the community through public service. Other countries have a "thirteenth year" of [{schooling...
...deepening insecurity that plagues much of the country. The climate of fear was measurable in degrees depending on what part of Afghanistan you were in: higher across the Taliban's southern stronghold, where threats of violence in cities like Kandahar were punctuated by sporadic attacks; and less so toward the center and north, the base of President Karzai's top challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister. (Watch a video about Abdullah Abdullah...