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Environmentalists rally to warn of massive
chemical discharge by new coal-fired plants
AUSTIN, Texas — Carrying signs with slogans of "Stop the Coal Rush" and "Shame on Texas," about 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Sunday to call for lawmakers to slow down a
plan to build up to 18 new coal-fired power plants. Environmentalists fear the new plants, with 11 proposed by energy giant TXU Corp., will pump millions of tons of pollutants into the air every
year. — 777 words
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Year of the Rat: Hillary Clinton scurries away from her old line on Iraq.
No matter the gender
a Clinton is a Clinton
Christopher Hitchens writes in Slate Magazine, “A hardened veteran of the British House of Commons once put it to me like this. "You can rat," he said. "Anybody can rat once. But it's very
hard to re-rat." Ah, how slowly one learns to appreciate the fine art and science of repositioning. Two excellent examples of its exquisite difficulty have been on offer in the past week. Former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been, as people say, "distancing" himself from some of the "perceived" implications of his Mormon faith, while remaining a loyal Mormon. And Sen. Hillary Clinton
has been striving to dissociate herself from her Iraq vote of October 2002, without actually going so far as to repudiate it.”— 1,186 words.
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Chavez as Castro?
It's not that simple in Venezuela
Bart Jones writes in the Houston Chronicle that “Alarm bells are sounding in Washington, on Wall Street, and around the world over President Hugo Chavez's latest moves to consolidate his
Bolivarian Revolution in oil-rich Venezuela. He is — we are told — shutting down a television station, creating a single-party state, nationalizing key industries including some major
oil projects, threatening perpetual re-election and vowing to impose "21st century socialism." — 890 words.
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Venezuelan archbishop calls
Condi Rice a ‘clumsy liar’
“This lady was way out of line when she said such things that are not true . This is a lie. . . . Monsignor Roberto Lückert told Union Radio, a private radio station, on Thursday
(February 8), that the CEV’s (Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference) board of directors had met recently but “it has not talked about the fact that the US Ambassador to Venezuela or any
other US official is concerned about us. I think this lady was very clumsy” to speak otherwise, he said. — 576 words.
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U.S. investors happy with $1 billion profit
as Venezuela nationalizes electric company
According to AP, Luis Gustavo Richard, a financial analyst with local brokerage InterAcciones Casa de Bolsa CA. said that the deal "turns out very well for the American investors." Even though
AES purchased the company for $1.6 billion and is selling it now for $739 million, it made a handsome profit of $1 billion in the six years it owned the company, said Richard. AES shares rose 0.63%
on the New york Stock Exchange today
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True North Canuck Fact of the Day
Canada’s first medical student graduated in 1833
When William Loggie graduated from McGill University in 1833 he became the first medical student to graduate in Canada.
Trivia compiled by Randy Ray and Mark Kearney. Visit their Web site at: www.triviaguys.com
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Harold Wright, True North's Doctor of Punology, says, “We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.”
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