Parisians are used to a certain amount of inertia in August, when the locals vacate and leave their city to the tourists. There are no…
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Expanding estimates of North America’s supply of accessible shale gas, and more recently, shale oil, have been trumpeted in many circles as…
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Governor Mitt Romney had a chance to demonstrate on his trip to Great Britain, Israel, and Poland that he is ready to take on the duties of…
In recent days a coalition of Mexican advocacy groups has been protesting in front of Televisa, the country’s largest TV network, to…
The proposed reductions in the Pentagon’s budget have a lot of people worried that smaller will mean weaker. The defense and aerospace…