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Although it is cleaner than oil and coal, burning natural gas still produces greenhouse gas emissions, as does the industrial activity required to get it out of the ground. Fracking has been used to extract gas since the late 1940s, although producers only began combining it with horizontal drilling to exploit unconventional gas resources in the past decade. With this process, water, sand, and chemicals are pumped at high pressure into rock formations deep in the Earth to fracture the rock, allowing the gas to escape and flow into the wells. The real solutions to climate change lie with conservation and renewable energy, but because natural gas will be with us for the foreseeable future, we must do all we can to clean up practices associated with it.
Many contestants in AMP Radio's "Breast Summer Ever" contest challenged the idea that cosmetic breast surgery is always something women to do conform to a beauty ideal and please men. Maybe the contestant who most challenged that idea was the eventual winner, Avery -- a trans woman.
You think you know a guy after 31 years of marriage, but last week, I saw my husband break new ground.
I don't know of anyone who doesn't have a money problem right now, in this economy.
Will we take Murdochgate as a case study of today's top power brokers in action and do the work required to understand and challenge them? Or will the ability to hold them to account end with nothing more than a close shave?
Some people say RIM's best-before date may have passed, which raises the question, what's next? Maintaining Canada's competitive edge takes more than strong markets, good intentions, or even hard work. It takes a constant stream of new and innovative products. And that's a problem.
For a complete picture of what the earliest Christians "knew" about Jesus, the books of the New Testament are not enough. One also needs to read the books that did not make it into Scripture.
It is time to launch a new political party, one with a very simply stated but enormous task, to get the special interest money and lobbying out of our government.
Big coal is making a comeback, and whether or not it can plow ahead may prove to be one of the most important litmus test for the federal government when it comes to making good on the few commitments to fighting climate change they have made.
Casey Anthony is hardly living the "beautiful life." She can't go home. She can't go out in the open. She hides from public view in a sort of inverted witness protection program brought on by at least one emailed death threat and the perception of a public fatwa.
Our task as clergy is not to marry everyone who asks. It is to provide honest and caring direction to couples who seek to embark on that awesome task of binding their hearts and minds together.
It's worth noting that the media organization at the center of the phone hacking scandal unfolding in the UK isn't some new media upstart or unsupervised blogger of the sort the traditional media are always wringing their hands over.
The government will attempt to strip some 1,800 people of their Canadian citizenship as it is alleged it was obtained through fraudulent means. Good for the government. This move can serve as a signal to the rest of the world that our citizenship is something to be valued.
For me, the summer has been tainted by the collective demonization of some of the most passionate, caring, and hard-working professionals we have in this country.
Forgive me for a moment while I make a gross generalization: Actors should stick to acting and singers should stick to singing.
I could be wrong, but my read of the national mood is that it's changing and that enough people are both paying attention to the debt ceiling debate and are "taking names" such that we might see Congress shamed into some action.
Why is it we can spend hours on our computer and then wonder what we accomplished in a day? It often seems that the very tools that are supposed to help us save time actually take up more of it.
Did Cenk Uygur stand up for what he believes in -- and what his online audience expects of him -- in the aftermath of his demotion from MSNBC? Sure looks that way. And for that he gets to walk out with his head held very high.
Josh D. Scheinert, 2011.07.21
