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4-30	Tens of Thousands in NYC Protest War  -  Iran: A Rummy Guide  -  Say Uncle, Rummy
4-30	Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Does Not Seem Amused   -  Video: Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner
4-30	Bloggers Take Internet Fight to the Hill
4-30	Disaster Response Improvements Lacking
4-30	Energy Crisis: Brother, Can You Spare a Gallon?
4-30	Peak Oil for Saudi Arabia?
4-30	Cheney exempts his own office from reporting on classified material
4-30	A battle for oil could set the world aflame
4-30	18 rich families pay for campaign to kill estate taxes
4-29	Bush Rejects Tax on Oil Companies' Profits
4-29	The Crony Fairy
4-29	Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says  -  US admits Iraq could become haven for terror
4-29	Wind is blowing the right way for alternative power
4-29	Who makes a mint from $70-barrel oil
4-29	Setting Grandmotherhood Aside, Judge Lets 18 Go in Peace
4-29	Beware the Hypocrisy of International Allegiances
4-29	Katrina Report Rips the White House Anew
4-29	Fitzgerald to Seek Indictment of Rove
4-28	Gorbachev Urges G8 to Back Solar Power, Not Oil or Nuclear  -  When Nukes Kill, No One Counts the Victims
4-28	Bush Set to Approve Takeover of 9 Military Plants by Dubai
4-28	The Great Bush Reclassification Project
4-28	Greed thrives in our health care system
4-28	Iraq war set to be more expensive than Vietnam
4-28	'Nothing Prepared Me for Bush'
4-27	Don't Believe the Oilman-In-Chief
4-27	Prize environmentalist
4-27	Israeli influence in U.S. no secret
4-27	A Prius in Every Pot
4-27	Grand Jury Gets Rove Testimony Over C.I.A. Leak
4-27	Second Thoughts in Congress on Oil Tax Breaks  -  GOP caters to big oil, Rahall says
4-27	Report Urges Dismantling FEMA
4-26	Bush eases environmental rules on gasoline [Bush apparently concerned oil company profits won't be high enough]  -  Little relief at the pumps
4-26	Behind the GOP Attack on Science
4-26	Chernobyl Kills While Bought ex-Greenpeacer Shills
4-26	Peak Oil not to be ignored  -  Conference To Discuss Peak Oil, World Oil Production, and Permanently Rising Energy Costs
4-26	A Mighty Wind  -  Residents say 'wind factory' would spoil life
4-26	Iran threatens retaliation if America attacks
4-26	Bush's Imperial Presidency
4-26	White House Press Corps to Get a Snow Job
4-26	Associates Say CIA Officer Not Leak Source
4-25	Energy Bill Aimed at Smarter Energy Consumption
4-25	Power plant waste eyed for green building
4-25	Shifting Footprints and Messianic Missions: Staying In Iraq 'Till Kingdom Come  -  Some Religious Nuts Really Are Nuts!
4-25	RummyAche  -  Criticism of Rumsfeld Widens to Young Officers  -  US 'approves war on terror plans'
4-25	$2.4 billion wasted on an oil project in Iraq that will never happen
4-25	Bush's approval ratings slide to new low
4-25	Democracy Behind Bars  -  Excerpt: Conned
4-25	Mary McCarthy's Tough Choice
4-24	California's Energy Strategy Holds Lessons for Bush
4-24	Bush ignored intelligence on Iraqi weapons, says ex-CIA officer  -  Bush was warned there were no WMD, says former CIA man
4-24	Removing America's Blinders
4-24	A tale of three leaders: the Unhinged Populist, Mr. Danger and The Poodle
4-24	"Been there, done that": Carter's national security man gives four compelling reasons not to wage war on Iran  -  Criticism of Rumsfeld Widens to Young Officers
4-23	Democrat says Bush must start touting alternative fuels alternatives, Democrat says
4-23	Americas Terror-war in Iraq  -  The Spy Who Voted the Wrong Way
4-23	Rumsfeld gone wild: New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones
4-23	Sweet Victory: Top Five Environmental Wins
4-23	Republicans on edge after calls for more resignations
4-23	Divine Mushroom Cloud: A Call to Worship
4-23	CIA Warned Bush of No Weapons in Iraq  -  No Longer Sitting Pretty
4-23	Patriotism Is Truth, Today as in Vietnam
4-22	U.S. media will never tell the truth about oil politics
4-22	Protests force Bush to relocate Hoover meeting; three students detained   -  Kerry Accuses Bush of Stifling Dissent
4-22	White House knew there were no WMD: CIA
4-22	Bush Spy Chief says Iran Won't Produce Nukes Soon  -  US Physicists: Use of Nuclear Weapons on Iran "Gravely Irresponsible"
4-22	New day, new high: Oil tops $75 a barrel  -  Energy drives higher Halliburton profit
4-22	Rocketing US war spending under fire  -  Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq
4-22	Mollohan quits House ethics panel  -  Mollohan Leaves Ethics Panel
4-21	Shenandoah River placed on endangered list
4-21	Manchin : Backing Bush's war?
4-21	Paul Krugman: The Great Revulsion
4-21	Lock Him Away to Stop the Next War  -  A Maniacal Messianic Prepares to Fulfill His Destiny  -  It's Called Mad For A Reason, You Fool!  -  Bush's may be the worst presidency in history.
4-21	How Dare They Use Our Oil!  -  China' s Oil Needs Are High on U.S. Agenda
4-21	Ready to rethink toilet paper for Earth Day?
4-21	Protester gatecrashes Hu visit as China and US fail to make progress  -  Woman arrested for speaking freely right after Bush call for "freedom...to speak freely"  -  Free-speech outrage: Wenyi Wang may be charged with federal crime for daring to criticize the president...of China
4-21	The CIA Wehrmacht
4-21	Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Rove
4-20	Voting machines flub
4-20	A Maniacal Messianic Prepares to Fulfill His Destiny  -  It's Called Mad For A Reason, You Fool!  -  Lock Him Away to Stop the Next War
4-20	What is driving oil prices so high?  -  A fate worse than global warming?
4-20	The Pentagon's New Spies
4-20	Rove Is Giving Up Daily Policy Post to Focus on Vote  -  Bush sacrifices key policymaker in reshuffle  -  Bush shuffles White House pack in bid to rescue presidency
4-20	Bush's may be the worst presidency in history  -  Bush's '16 Words' Were False
4-20	Scientists Find Rivers Under Antarctic Ice
4-19	Rove Gives Up Policy Post; McClellan Resigns  -  McClellan Resigns in White House Shake-Up
4-19	China's Oil Needs Are High on U.S. Agenda  -  America meets the new superpower
4-19	Here's Donny! In His Defense, a Show Is Born
4-19	Tilting at Windmills
4-19	Fallout from Chernobyl will cause 100,000 deaths, says Greenpeace
4-19	Earth Day is coming...
4-19	Rumsfeld Linked to Guantanamo Torture
4-19	Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq
4-18	Secret Plan to Cut National Park Funding by 30 Percent in Five Years
4-18	Nepalese Forces Fire on Demonstrators
4-18	Rumsfeld May Be Permanently Tainted by War in Iraq
4-18	Backers of Political Ads Skirt Rules on Disclosure
4-18	Indian Gambling
4-18	Millionaires and Middle Class Now Pay Nearly Same Rate of Taxes
4-18	A Primary Concern
4-18	Bush Plan Would Hide Data on 1.5 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals in California
4-18	New Progress for Progressive Media   -   Taking Media Progress Even Further
4-18	State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False
4-18	Iraqi women's plight worsens
4-18	Ruined Treasures in Babylon Await an Iraq Without Fighting
4-18	Limbs Lost to Enemy Fire, Women Forge a New Reality
4-18	Mississippi Senators' Rail Plan Challenged
4-18	Descent into Anger and Despair
4-18	Sand Storm, Pollution Envelop Beijing
4-18	EU body challenged over GM report
4-17	As Policy Decisions Loom, a Code of Silence Is Broken  - Behind the Military Revolt
4-17	Bush's Secret War
4-17	Law to Segregate Omaha Schools Divides Nebraska
4-17	A Bad Leak
4-17	Anger at Bush May Hurt GOP At Polls  -  As President Bush's Popularity Falls, the Nation's Color Divide Adds a Few Hues
4-17	US plots new liberation of Baghdad
4-17	New Worry Rises After Iran Claims Nuclear Steps
4-17	Guantanamo Tortures Approved by Rumsfeld
4-17	In Candor From China, Efforts to Ease Anxiety   -  Pollution fight may form basis for a U.S.-China partnership
4-17	Photo-Op Frames a Shot at Iran
4-17	Bush expected to approve dramatic pandemic flu response plan
4-17	Drumbeat of War is Drowning Out Wiser Counsels
4-17	Spy Chief: CIA Detainees Will Be Held Indefinitely
4-17	Retired Generals Rising Up Against Iraq War
4-17	Europe Takes Harder Line With Terror Suspects
4-17	Delta Smelt's Fate Worries Scientists
4-17	Dead zone linked to farm subsidies
4-16	Group criticizing Mollohan has conservative agenda
4-16	Guided wildflower hikes spring up all over the state
4-16	US Colonel Offers Iraq an Apology of Sorts for Devastation of Babylon
4-16	US Strike on Iran: Fallout Around the World Would Be Grim  -  Pentagon Planned Iran Invasion in 2004  - So how close is a showdown over Iran?
4-16	Dust Bowl Uncertainty Grows in Iraq
4-16	Gaza on brink of implosion as aid cut-off starts to bite
4-16	Rumsfeld Potentially Liable for Torture
4-16	E-Mails Link Abramoff, Bush Official
4-16	Rumsfeld resignation row simmers
4-16	An Island Kingdom Feels the Ripples From Iraq and Iran
4-16	HOW GREEN IS GREEN?
4-16	U.S. unveils plan for flu pandemic  (National Guard troops could be dispatched to cities facing possible "insurrection.")
4-16	McDonald's Accused of 'Acting Like the Taliban'
4-16	By Design, Status Seekers and Tree-Huggers Don't Have to Commune
4-16	Islands - Paradise Invaded
4-16	White House Whopper Becomes Instant Classic
4-16	UK uses more than three times its share of global resources  -  Britain now 'eating the planet'
4-15	Mollohan defends financial filings
4-15	Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says  -  Libby Filing: A Denial and a Mystery  -  Bush's Final Jeopardy
4-15	U.S. Building Massive Embassy in Baghdad
4-15	Meet Mr. Republican: Jack Abramoff
4-15	Rumsfeld Gets Robust Defense From President
4-15	Wall Street Versus America
4-15	Progress in Europe's CIA Probes
4-15	The Reporter Whose Scoops Give the Bush Administration Sleepless Nights
4-15	A war of water haves versus have-nots
4-15	Permission to Speak Freely, Sir
4-15	Coca quandary for hard-up Bolivia
4-15	Waste in Katrina Response Is Cited
4-15	Prisoner of Conscience: RAF Doctor Who Refused Iraq Service Is Jailed
4-15	The Raid On Student Aid
4-15	In 2005, Exxon CEO Raked In 190K a Day  -  For Leading Exxon to Its Riches, $144,573 a Day
4-15	Courtroom bumps for the war on terror
4-15	Capitalism on the Cob
4-15	Salmon failing to show up
4-14	It won't be typical race for Mollohan
4-14	First phase of gorge development OKd
4-14	Learning to Count: The Dead in Iraq
4-14	Americans Wary of Action on Iran, Gloomy on Iraq, Poll Shows
4-14	Americas Secret Police?
4-14	More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation  -  The Revolt Against Rumsfeld
4-14	Mollohan report linked to conservatives
4-14	Dying for Water in Somalia's Drought
4-14	Debate Revives as 9/11 Dust Is Called Fatal
4-14	Soiling the nest
4-14	Bush to make decision on Dubai defense purchase  - Lawmaker upset by silence on another Dubai deal
4-13	Fayette officials OK Phase I of development near New River Gorge
4-13	Blame NAFTA
4-13	Analysts Say a Nuclear Iran Is Years Away   - Rice Calls for 'Strong Steps' Against Iran
4-13	Now Powell Tells Us
4-13	Rumsfeld Rebuked By Retired Generals
4-13	What Game Were They At? 'Wash Post' Deaf to Boos for Cheney
4-13	At Trial, Flight 93 Myth Finally Becomes Reality   -  US jurors hear 9/11 cockpit tape
4-13	Documents Show Link Between AT&T and Agency in Eavesdropping Case
4-13	A Crystal Ball Submerged in a Test Tube
4-13	As the Rich Ride In, Many Are Priced Out of Homes on the Range
4-13	China villagers attack polluting factories
4-13	A Rising Tide in Mexico
4-13	Scalia Defends Involvement in Cheney Case
4-13	Mining Still Tops EPA Toxic Release Inventory
4-13	Problems mount from 9/11 fallout
4-13	Acting Your Race
4-13	US on par with Nazi Germany, says RAF officer in Iraq trial
4-13	How Crazy Are They?
4-13	When Animals Suffer, So Do We
4-12	Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
4-12	Democracy Be Damned - Republicans Need Another War
4-12	Iran Reports Big Advance in Enrichment of Uranium
4-12	ROBO-JET PLAN TO STRIKE IRAN
4-12	E-mails show Abramoffs use of donations
4-12	Archives Kept a Secrecy Secret
4-12	Small engine industry still battling pollution controls
4-12	Cocana No, Coca S
4-12	Private water, public misery
4-11	Yes He Would
4-11	Thousands Demonstrate Over Immigration  - Defining the melting pot
4-11	Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi
4-11	Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld Out
4-11	Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House
4-11	Stephenie Hendricks Reminds the Fundamentalists: 'Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit'
4-11	White House discredited
4-11	Nitrogen emissions threaten biodiversity 'hotspots'
4-11	Where computers go to die -- and kill
4-11	With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush in Spotlight
4-10	Chomsky: The Assault on Democracy
4-10	Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld Out -  "Why I Think Rumsfeld Must Go": A military insider sounds off against the war and the "zealots" who pushed it
4-10	CIA leak probe circles back to cast Bush as leaker in chief  -  Bush Knew Niger Claims Were False When He Leaked Them
4-10	A Good Swift Kick  -  So Long, Tom, You Hypocrite
4-10	Are Mainstream Churches Finally Standing Up to the GOPs Hateful Christian Blitzkrieg?  -  Christian Coalition Shrinks as Debt Grows
4-9	The President and Vice President Are Not in the Clear Yet
4-9	White House Tries to Quell Anger Over Leak Claim   -  Iraq Findings Leaked by Cheney's Aide Were Disputed  -  A 'Concerted Effort' to Discredit Bush Critic  -  Intelligence leak timeline under scrutiny
4-9	And Now the News... Or Is It an Ad?
4-9	Seymour Hersh: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
4-9	US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran  -  Report: U.S. stepping up war plans for Iran   -  Iran ready for high-level talks, US resists
4-9	Former Diplomat: Iraq War Made World Less Safe
4-9	Leak-Hating President as Leaker-in-Chief?
4-9	Faith and the left
4-9	Harvesting wastelands
4-9	GOP Sees Disturbing Reflection in The Mirror
4-9	Lobbying Cases Shine Spotlight on Family Ties
4-8	Mollohan defends finances  -  Congressman's Special Projects Bring Complaints - A federal inquiry raises troubling ethical questions
4-8	Rahall campaign examined
4-8	White House Does Not Dispute Bush Leak Allegation  -  The Leaker-in-Chief
4-8	Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
4-8	Gonzales Suggests Legal Basis for Domestic Eavesdropping
4-8	U.S. Defies U.N. Decision Plans Massive Military Detonation on Western Shoshone Land
4-7	Bush Authorized Leak to Times, Libby Told Grand Jury  -  Cheney's Aide Says President Approved Leak   -  Prosecutor Says Disclosures on Iraq Were Aimed at War Critic  -  Bush 'approved intelligence leak'   -  Evidence Suggests White House Conspiracy  - Bush at Center of Intelligence Leak   -  Bush: Hands Possibly as Dirty as Scooter Libby's  - New Questions Raised About White House Role in Leaking Classified Iraq Intelligence
4-7	President Bush, 2003: 'Leaks of Classified Information Are a Bad Thing'
4-7	Bush, GOP Approval Ratings Hit New Lows
4-7	Warrantless Wiretaps Possible in U.S.
4-7	Iraqi Says Visit by Two Diplomats Backfired
4-7	The Real Iraq News
4-7	Immigrants and Us  -  The NAFTA Corridors: Offshoring U.S. Transportation Jobs to Mexico
4-7	US blueprint for 125 nuclear bombs a year
4-7	Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Calls War Crimes Tribunal A Con
4-7	Are red blood cells defenseless against smaller nanoparticles?
4-7	Amid an internal crisis of credibility, Condoleezza Rice has washed her hands of her department
4-7	Greenpeace: McDonald's harming the Amazon
4-7	Not a pretty poison
4-7	China's Waterways Facing Major Chemical Pollution Risks
4-7	Puget Sound a toxic stew, scientists say
4-7	The ugly side of the E-world
4-7	Rumble in the Jungle Over Oil
4-6	Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed   -  Report Faults Video Reports Shown as News
4-6	State faces loss of $5 million in federal funds
4-6	Once Upon a Forest
4-6	Rumsfeld Challenges Rice on 'Tactical Errors' in Iraq   -  No welcome for Rice
4-6	Impact of the President's Budget on West Virginia
4-6	Senator sees Bushs Homeland Security plan as paper thin
4-6	Latin America challenges the Washington Consensus
4-6	Nanotech Product Recalled in Germany
4-6	Fossil Called Missing Link From Sea to Land Animals
4-6	With This Ethical Ring I Thee Wed
4-6	Rice Appeals For Nuclear Deal for India
4-6	White House Renews Call for Nevada Nuke Waste Site
4-6	Embracing Cheap Workers, Ignoring Their Welfare
4-6	Pentagon Admits to More Spying on Peace Activists
4-6	Bush's Unprecedented Arrogance
4-6	Controversy over autism eats at credibility of CDC
4-6	Air pollution cuts eight months off life span
4-5	W.Va. chefs stay at home for ingredients, inspiration
4-5	Highways transfer called political
4-5 YES!	He's Gone (No sorry, not Bush, but getting closer...)  -  Political insiders fall   -  DeLay Departing on Own Terms   -  Bush's War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest   - Fall of the Ring Bearers  - Tom DeLay's exit is big loss for House GOP  -  Top US Republican stepping down
4-5	The President's War Madness  -  Audacity and Mendacity  -  When War Crimes Are Impossible
4-5	EPA air-toxics plan sparks internal rift   -  EPA Plan Could Let Many Plants Skirt Strictest Cuts in Air Pollutants
4-5	Enron's Kazillion Dollar Bash
4-5	Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq
4-5	Abramoff Offered to Aid Sudan, Envoy Says
4-5	Massachusetts Sets Health Plan for Nearly All
4-5	Democracy In Iraq Not A Priority in U.S. Budget
4-5	In New Orleans, a Second Freedom Ride
4-4	How much is the Gorge worth?
4-4	Court backs Bush over US terror suspects   -  Justices Decline Terror Case of a U.S. Citizen
4-4	DeLay Is Quitting Race and House, Officials Report  -  Federal Probe Has Edged Closer to Texan  -  Tom DeLay Talks with TIME
4-4	Bush's Paper Trail Grows
4-4	Fitzgerald Knew Identity of Leaker From Start
4-4	A new variety of environmentalist, one whose focus is human survival
4-4	Chvez, Seeking Foreign Allies, Spends Billions
4-3	All quiet on W.Va. election front
4-3	Pollution: Where have all the baby boys gone?
4-3	Failed States, Rogue States and America
4-3	Government in Secret Talks About Strike Against Iran
4-3	US and UK Forces Establish "Enduring Bases" in Iraq
4-3	Bringing Back the Wounded With Heart, Soul and Surgery
4-3	Documents Describe US Auditors' Battles With Halliburton
4-3	Viva la Immigration Debate   -  Si Se Puede!
4-3	Rice Finds British Muslims Want to Give Her an Earful
4-3	Frist Is Treading a Perilous Path Leading to 2008
4-3	U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters--Contractors Don't Finish Them
4-3	Group builds new bridges between wildlife, boardrooms
4-3	AS DEVELOPMENT ENDANGERS FAMILY CEMETERIES, SOME CONCERNED CITIZENS TRY TO SAVE THEM
4-2	Gorge house visibility obvious, river chief says
4-2	Scientific fraud among builders of Bush's $26 billion space weapons shield
4-2	Wars opponents need to get busy, activist says
4-2	War Against Iran, April 2006   -  Attacking Iran May Trigger Terrorism
4-2	Civilians in Iraq Flee Mixed Areas as Killings Rise
4-2	Rice admits thousands of Iraq errors
4-2	Courted as Spies, Held as Combatants
4-2	The War Drums Are Sounding A Clear Message
4-2	The Only Hope For the World
4-2	The Art of War for the anti-war movement
4-2	Hole discovered drilled into pipe at Miami-Dade nuclear reactor
4-2	Cancer in a Can
4-2	Cancer equals profit
4-2	With its food rationing and greasy soap, Cuba forces Americans to face up to the ultimate guilt trip
4-2	Internet Injects Sweeping Change Into U.S. Politics
4-2	In a Wired South Korea, Robots Will Feel Right at Home
4-2	CIA Leak Figure Armitage Joins ConocoPhillips Board
4-2	As he takes to the road to salvage his presidency, Bush is letting down his guard and playing up his anti-intellectual, regular-guy image
4-2	Wetlands Reverse Long Decline -- If Golf Course Ponds Count
4-1	EPA May Weaken Rule on Water Quality
4-1	Censure of Bush May Be Appropriate, U.S. Senator Leahy Says
4-1	Polluters Contaminating Americas Waters: 62 Percent Exceed Pollution Limits in Recent 18-Month Period
4-1	Insulating Bush
4-1	War Deserter Tells of Atrocities
4-1	The New Civil Rights Movement
4-1	Peddling Deception
4-1	Victory For K Street
4-1	Plea in DeLay Case Snares Close Confidant  - Capito donates questioned contributions to Sago fund  -  Ex-DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty in Lobby Case
4-1	More White House Staff Changes Coming (Cheney, Rummy, Condi... and Bush exiting?)
4-1	A Tangle in Caracas for Exxon
4-1	Swift action needed to protect biodiversity: critics
4-1	Assault on the publics right to know
4-1	Agent Orange: the legacy of a weapon of mass destruction