washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY -- In this nation that embraced one of the world's most aggressive campaigns against global warming, the Pokropp family can almost hear the cha-ching when switching off their lights.
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Film and biographies mark 250th anniversary of passionate 'Ode to Joy' poetHe is the "rebel from Arcadia", the author of the lyrics to the modern European anthem, Ode to Joy, and a passionate champion of free spirits. But for some time Germany seemed to forget all about the man who was arguably the country's most famous Rom (Read More)
The Guardian:
Villagers say visitors to delta are a threat to wildlife and their fishing industryMusic, dancing and smiling platitudes greeted the royal guest in the fishing village of Samochima, northern Botswana. But cutting through the convivial mood was a cry of anguish – and a plea for a way of life threatened by tourism in the worl (Read More)
The Guardian:
Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil TigersSri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the country's bit (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Aaron Cohen travels the world, rescuing girls sold into prostitution. He tells Carole Cadwalladr why he does it – and how a suburban kid turned heroin addict became a human rights campaignerI don't know where to even start with Aaron Cohen. With his day job, springing imprisoned girls out of brothels? With his past life as (Read More)
The Guardian:
Halfway through a 50-year project to raise football's profile in America – and on the day David Beckham plays in the MLS Cup final – the men in charge are delightedThe American investors who are investing abroad should invest here." So said Sepp Blatter last summer when the Fifa president visited the United States and saw t (Read More)
Daily Kos:
This recession has taught us that we can’t return to a situation where America’s economic growth is fueled by consumers who take on more and more debt.  In order to keep growing, we need to spend less, save more, and get our federal deficit under control.  We also need to place a greater emphasis on exports that we can bui (Read More)
Huffington Post:
CHICAGO — Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago."I used to live across the street from Harpo and when I moved there it was me and cross-dressing crack addict (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activitiesThe security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city's bar association was swe (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
Last October, the president of the island nation of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, made all his ministers put on diving gear and held the first underwater cabinet meeting in history. His point? If nothing is done to slow global warming at next month's United Nations climate-change conference in Copen...
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LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident.Los Angeles District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Ghalib was taken into custody immediately after being sentenced Friday. He pleaded no contest last month to leaving the scene of (Read More)