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$4.4 trillion PLAN Clean Energy 2030 – a knol by Jeffery Greenblatt

Google’s Proposal for reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels

Jeffery Greenblatt

Google.org

Google’s goal in presenting the Clean Energy 2030 proposal is to stimulate debate and we invite you to take a look and comment – or offer an alternative approach if you disagree.

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Britney Spears (center), with school principal Casimiro V. Cibelli and Mary Beth Mazzotta, from Elizabeth Arden Photo by: Courtesy Yamil Perez

A New York middle school got a surprise visitor: Britney Spears.
The pop star dropped by John Philip Sousa M. S. 142 in The Bronx on Wednesday to present a $10,000 check to be [...]

Sharon Stone Photo by: Eugene Hoshiko / AP

tiiQuigoWriteAd(757767, 1348106, 180, 240, -1); Sharon Stone denies ever recommending that her 8-year-old son get Botox treatments for foot odor, the actress’s lawyer says in a statement.
“Sharon Stone never made this statement. It is a complete fabrication,” [...]

Marc Quinn said he wanted to sculpt the ‘ideal beauty’

A 50kg solid gold statue of model Kate Moss has been unveiled at the British Museum, in London.
The £1.5m sculpture, entitled Siren, is by artist Marc Quinn and is one of several contemporary [...]

Steve Ballmer on Microsoft’s internet search plans

The chief executive of Microsoft has admitted that his firm’s slowness to grasp the potential of internet search had hit the business.
Steve Ballmer told the BBC that Microsoft had become a “David” in search alongside the “Goliath” of [...]

Will Uncle Sam still bestride the world in future?

The financial crisis is likely to diminish the status of the United States as the world’s only superpower.
On the practical level, the US is already [...]

Yes, I am an angry guy.
I yell at other drivers. I roll my eyes when I have to stand in line for more than two minutes. I complain about Wall Street’s greedy executives, out-of-touch politicians, and our local newscast idiots, with their pancake makeup, chiseled cheekbones, and chirpy laughter.
Stuff that [...]

Where does Apple go from here? The question lies at the heart of the media and industry buzz that so often surrounds a company adept at surprising and confounding even the most jaded observers. It’s particularly pressing in light of the oblique reference to a “new product transition” made by Apple (AAPL) Chief Financial [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Pessimism about a protracted economic downturn washed over the financial markets Thursday, sending stocks plunging and further tightening the credit markets. News of declining factory orders and a seven-year high in jobless claims stoked fears that the government’s financial rescue plan won’t ward off a recession, and the Dow Jones industrials [...]