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Bestselling books the week of 3/10/13, according to IndieBound*
See what's selling in bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/4/13, according to IndieBound*
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3 novels about home and estrangement
Robert Frost once defined home as “the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” In this week's fiction roundup, three men estranged from their families find out if he was right.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/28/13, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 2/21/13, according to IndieBound*
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Bright Green Scientists admit global warming is a hoax (April fools)
04/01/2009 01:00 am -
Horizons Today's top 5 April Fools gags
04/01/2009 01:00 am -
Jack Bauer tackles global warming
Fox’s action-packed series ‘24’ is the first TV show to reach carbon neutral.
03/20/2009 01:00 am -
Global News Blog Diplomatic flurry after North Korea seizes US journalists
Did the two women cross into North Korea, or did border guards lure them over?
03/19/2009 01:00 am -
Bright Green Al Gore joins call for new '.eco' Internet domain
Al Gore and his group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, have joined forces with Dot Eco LLC to call for a new top-level domain for environmental websites.
03/09/2009 01:00 am -
Bright Green Do climate protests work?
On Monday, thousands of climate activists descended on Washington, D.C., to protest the Capitol Power Plant, a partly coal-fired plant that heats and air-conditions the seat of the US Congress and is the District of Columbia's largest source of air pollution and carbon emissions.
03/06/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote McCain announces another run - proves you can campaign forever
02/11/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote McCain: Best cure for defeat is to be "back in the arena"
02/08/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote David Obey, Dick Cheney and KISS
02/06/2009 12:00 am -
Bright Green It's cold. Does that debunk global warming?
As Al Gore delivered his testimony to Congress on the urgency of addressing climate change Wednesday, snow and ice blanketed the nation from Oklahoma to New England, snarling commutes, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands, and providing an apparent irony that is too rich for some commentators to ignore.
01/29/2009 12:00 am -
The Monitor's View Obama's high-wire electric act
Will he take people's land to build a national grid when local networks for energy renewables may do?
01/28/2009 12:00 am -
Bright Green Gore: Stimulus package will help curb climate change
01/28/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote More change! Joe Biden's house is clear on Google Earth
01/27/2009 12:00 am -
Letters to the Editor
Readers write about the lessons that can be learned from Kosovo, the systemic debt problem in US higher education, and another way President Obama may unite rivals.
01/26/2009 12:00 am -
Tibet shepherds live on climate frontier
Shrinking glaciers mean longer hikes to water flocks
01/21/2009 12:00 am -
Holograms, live onstage
Once limited to movies, they head into the real world.
01/15/2009 12:00 am -
Postcards from Tomorrow Square
James Fallows offers insightful reporting on the rise of China.
01/15/2009 12:00 am -
Bright Green Climate change video of the week: None Like It Hot
Set in the distant future long after politicians have devised a "solution" to global warming, this animation first aired in 2002 as part of the Futurama episode, "Crimes of the Hot," and was subsequently used in Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
01/14/2009 12:00 am -
Bright Green Can Obama's clean energy plan save the climate?
In a major economic speech Thursday at George Mason University, President-elect Barack Obama called for doubling domestic production of alternative energy over the next three years.
01/12/2009 12:00 am -
Bright Green NASA climate scientist pens personal appeal to Obama
James Hansen, one of the world's most eminent climate scientists, and his wife, Anniek, have written an open letter to Barack and Michelle Obama on the urgency of the need to halt global warming.
01/05/2009 12:00 am -
Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life
Entertainment journalist Brian Raftery examines the odd art of karaoke.
01/03/2009 12:00 am -
Montana’s got wind, needs power lines
But environmentalists worry that an expanded grid will help carry more dirty power.
12/29/2008 12:00 am -
Hollywood rolls out the green carpet
The entertainment industry is doing more to make productions and events ecofriendly.
12/21/2008 12:00 am -
Bright Green Obama's green team
At a news conference in Chicago Monday, Barack Obama announced many of his energy and environment appointees, a team that many say signals a sharp break from Bush administration policies toward pollution, wildlife, clean energy, and climate change.
12/15/2008 12:00 am -
Bright Green At Poland climate talks, Al Gore calls for tough CO2 limits
Speaking at the international climate talks in Poznań, Poland, on Friday, Al Gore called for a stricter upper limit on greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
12/12/2008 12:00 am
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