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Proposed power lines divide environmental groups	15.9.2008	Minnesota Public Radio: Business
A plan for new power lines to criss-cross Minnesota is dividing environmental advocates.
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Houston port, airports wait to reopen after Ike	15.9.2008	SFGate: Business & Technology
As Hurricane Ike faded and rain clouds eased, business owners along the Texas Gulf Coast began returning to their shops and offices Sunday to size up their rebuilding job. The early betting line was that damage wasn't as bad as feared. Before the storm ...
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After powerful hurricane, rescuers scour ravaged areas in Texas	14.9.2008	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
Thousands of people who refused orders to evacuate were feared stranded in flattened homes or inundated towns across a wide swath of Texas.
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Critics claim deception in Calif. energy measures	14.9.2008	SFGate: Business & Technology
Californians will vote on two ballot initiatives this fall that at first glance would seem shoo-ins for approval in a state long associated with environmental activism. The first would require utilities to generate half their electricity from ...
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Officials Still Unsure of Ike Death Toll, Damage Costs	14.9.2008	Truthout.com
From the sea-swamped neighborhoods of Galveston to the pine-covered hills north of Houston, people across Southeast Texas awoke Saturday to a stunning tableau of devastation caused by the passage of Hurricane Ike, the first hurricane in a quarter-century to score a direct hit on the state's most populous region. The official insistence that it could have been much worse - Ike's late eastward drift lessened a storm surge that had been predicted as apocalyptic - was little consolation to residents whose homes were wrecked by water, falling ...
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Maine candidates respond to AP questions	14.9.2008	Boston Globe: Maine
In Maine's 2nd Congressional District, retired history professor John Frary of Farmington is in an uphill battle to unseat Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud, who's seeking a fourth term.
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Maine candidates respond to AP questions	14.9.2008	Boston Globe: Maine
The vacuum left by six-term Rep. Tom Allen's departure to run for Senate in Maine's 1st Congressional District has triggered a race between two experienced politicians, Democrat Chellie Pingree and Republican Charlie Summers.
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Thomas L. Friedman: Making America stupid	14.9.2008	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
Unless America regains its status as the country most able to innovate, compete and win in the age of globalization, its leverage in the world will continue to erode.
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Texas Eyes Weeks Of Recovery From Ike	14.9.2008	NPR News
Texas and Louisiana have been declared disaster areas, more than a million people are away from their homes, and gasoline prices are on the rise. All are consequences of the enormous Hurricane Ike which slammed into south Texas Saturday, flooding thousands of homes and sending hundreds of rescue personnel out searching for survivors.
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Hurricane causes extensive damage in Texas	14.9.2008	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
There were reports of as many as four people killed, but it could take days to search flooded homes to assess the extent of the impact of Hurricane Ike.
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Racing against time, crews try to reach those feared stranded in Hurricane Ike's floodwaters	14.9.2008	Star Tribune: Nation

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The politics of wind power	14.9.2008	International Herald Tribune: Business
For years in the United States, wind-farm projects had stalled in the face of local political opposition. Then an entrepreneur named Peter Mandelstam came up with a new and energizing approach.
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Hurricane damage is extensive in Texas	14.9.2008	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
There were reports of as many as four people killed, but it could take days to search flooded homes to assess the extent of the impact of Hurricane Ike.
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Fate unclear of those who stayed	14.9.2008	Boston Globe: Latest
HOUSTON - Texas and Louisiana yesterday began a massive recovery effort, including searching for the stranded and missing, after Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm stretching about 600 miles, pulverized the Gulf Coast with maximum winds of about 100 miles per hour as it flattened houses, ripped the glass windows from downtown office buildings, and left a wide swath of flooding ...
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Lining up for flu shots	14.9.2008	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
The Board of Health will hold two flu clinics in the coming months, recommended for people older than 60 and those with chronic medical conditions or compromised immune systems, said health agent Jeanmarie Joyce. The clinics will take place in Town Hall on Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Nov. 6, from 2 to 6 p.m. ...
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Rescuing Ike stalwarts a race against the clock	14.9.2008	Boston Globe: Latest
Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to rescue those who faced a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines.
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Solving problems through BlueGreen Alliance	14.9.2008	Mankato Free Press: Local News
Environmentalists and blue-collar workers in souther Minnesota are working to help solve the nation's unemployment, energy woes.
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Millions without power in Texas after Hurricane Ike	14.9.2008	Reuters Global Coverage
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Ike slammed the Texas and Louisiana coast on Saturday with ferocious winds and a wall of water that flooded hundreds of miles, cut power to millions and caused billions of dollars in ...
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By air, boat and truck, rescuers fan out in search for thousands of Hurricane Ike survivors	14.9.2008	Star Tribune: Business

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Gas prices jump as Ike smacks Texas, Louisiana coasts, shutting Gulf production	14.9.2008	Star Tribune: Nation

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