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Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Ted Turner - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - The purpose of Keystone XL is to bring tar sands crude oil through the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good reason. The existing and potential environmental impacts along the 2,000-mile pipeline route are profound.

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LZ: Michigan to Romney: Go away

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By LZ Garnderson - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - That's why the characterization of Rick Santorum polling well in Romney's backyard is a bit misguided. The truth is, many of us disowned that two-faced liar years ago. We remember how, back in 2008, Romney came home promising to do all he could to save the auto industry. And we believed him and voted for him and he won the primary here. Then, after he dropped out of the race, he wrote a New York Times op-ed that carried the headline "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." The opening sentence: "If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."

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Jesse James: Return of the outlaw biker

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Dec. 05 (Entertainment) - Jesse James had it all. The Hollywood A-list wife. A top-ranked cable-TV show. He'd built his Long Beach shop, West Coast Choppers, into an empire, wrenching custom $80,000-plus motorcycles for a celebrity clientele — an endeavor he spun off into a mass-market clothing line for Wal-Mart, a glossy gearhead magazine and an eco-friendly burger joint he hoped to franchise.

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Streets With Bike Lanes are a Kind of Economic Stimulus

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Treehugger - By Michael Graham Richard - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - A new report by the University of Massachusetts' Political Economy Research Institute confirms that bike lanes are not just good for our health and for the environment, but they are also very good for the health of the economy. Some of the ways it brings benefits are: Tourism, more traffic to local businesses, increased property values, healthier citizens, etc.

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Driving Is Why You're Fat

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Ariel Schwartz - May. 15 (Comment) - Obesity is a complicated disease. It can be caused by your mom's pregnancy diet, genetics, your KFC Double Down habit, or some combination of all three. But why has the problem reached such epidemic proportions in the U.S.? Researchers at the University of Illinois think our car culture may be to blame. After analyzing national statistics from between 1985 and 2007, the researchers found that vehicle use (measured in annual vehicle miles traveled) correlated approximately 99% with annual obesity rates. The more we sit around doing nothing in our cars, the fatter we get. Of course, cars and roads aren't going anywhere, but we could stand to drive just a little bit less. If every licensed driver in the country cut down on travel by just one mile each day, in six years the obesity rate would drop 2.16%--cutting down on the number of obese adults by almost 5 million people, according to PhysOrg.

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Can we get off oil now?

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Mark Fischetti - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - How many wars, deaths, recessions and environmental disasters will it take before Americans, and their Congress, finally make a decisive move to reduce the country's dependence on oil?

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2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG: Efficiency and performance in a breathtaking package

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Jan. 27 (Review) - The 7-year-old luxury sports car model combines increased fuel economy with more horsepower and torque.When it comes to luxury sport cars, efficiency and performance have been terminally at odds. Twinning the two ideas is akin to pulling together the polarized ends of a magnet. But with its CLS 63 AMG for 2012, Mercedes-Benz has, mein gott, done it.

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CAR REVIEWS: BEST OF 2011

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter, David Undercoffler - Jan. 16 (Review) - Awards season is at hand, so it's only fitting to salute top performers in one of L.A.'s favorite categories: autos. Our work as Times car reviewers put us behind the wheels of dozens of vehicles last year.

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A Green Detroit? No, a Guzzling One

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Edward Niedermeyer - Dec. 16 (Opinion) - G.M. and Chrysler, post-bailout, are profitable only because of pickups and S.U.V.’s.

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TSA Chief: 'We'll Never Eliminate Risk'

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By James Fallows, Jeffrey Goldberg - Dec. 08 (Interview) - Ever since new airport security procedures went into effect in late October, the Transportation Security Administration has been at the center of controversy. The combination of enhanced image screening with invasive patdowns for those who opt out has rankled civil liberties advocates and some of the flying public...

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The Real Airport Security Debate: Would You Rather Be Groped or Zapped?

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Politics Daily - By David Corn - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - It's a no-brainer: I'd rather accept a demeaning squeeze than a dose of radiation -- before being allowed to proceed to friendly skies. In either case, I'll be thinking: The terrorists won.

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Don't Touch My Junk

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Charles Krauthammer - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - This time you have gone too far, Big Bro'. The sleeping giant awakes. Take my shoes, remove my belt, waste my time and try my patience. But don't touch my junk.

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Congress Should Defend My Junk

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Joshua Green - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - As denizens of the Atlantosphere are all too well aware, TSA is on an insane crusade to touch everybody's junk (except when they're not, as Jim Fallows happily discovered). Here's an idea: if Republicans want to get off to a good start and improve their dismal popularity, they should use the House Oversight Committee to investigate what the hell TSA is thinking.

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Opinionator: Getting Touchy at the Airport

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:33:27 -0800

New York Times - By By TOBIN HARSHAW - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - Travelers are furious with the T.S.A. But are we safer in the air?

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Has Airport Security Gone Too Far?

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Noah Shachtman - Nov. 17 (Opinion) - Pilots and travelers are rebelling against scanners that douse them with X-rays and reveal their private parts. There must be a better way.

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Big Sister's police state

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Times - Nov. 17 (Editorial) - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has crossed the line. As if subjecting millions of Americans to X-rated x-ray scans and public groping sessions weren't bad enough, the agency now threatens $11,000 in fines against anyone refusing to submit to humiliation at the airport.

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The Full-Body Scan Backlash

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - As full-body scanners come into more widespread use in American airports, they are also coming under more frequent criticism.

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For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Jeffrey Goldberg - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - In part because of the back-scatter imager's invasiveness, the TSA is allowing passengers to choose instead a pat-down.

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Review: Chevy Volt — electrifying

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Oct. 21 (Review) - GM has succeeded in making an outside-the-box electric vehicle that's alluring almost any way you look at it, including under the hood.

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Why Free Parking Comes at a Price

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tyler Cowen - Aug. 15 (Opinion) - Higher charges for parking spaces would limit our trips by car. That would cut emissions, alleviate congestion and, as a side effect, improve land use. Donald C. Shoup, professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, has made this idea a cause, as presented in his 733-page book, “The High Cost of Free Parking.”

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Getting There: Charm City Circulator: MARC on rubber wheels?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Michael Dresser - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - Does Baltimore really need a second MTA? Has the Purple Route developed a circulatory disease?

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Here Comes the Neighborhood

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Christopher B. Leinberger - May. 13 (Opinion) - Conventional suburbs are overbuilt and out of favor. In cities and suburbs alike, walkable neighborhoods linked by train are the future. Here’s how a new network of privately funded rail lines can make that future come to pass more quickly and cheaply—and help reinvigorate housing and the economy.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Collecting real-time data from cars could save lives.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:31 -0800

New York Times - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - Collecting real-time data from cars could save lives.

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Ruling denies justice for Australian crash victims

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - By Danielle Teutsch - Dec. 13 (Comment) - THE families of the Australians killed in the Garuda plane crash in 2007 are angry and disappointed that the pilot will escape a prison term and will be able to return to flying if he chooses.

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Chamber of Commerce Urges Lawmakers to Raise the Gas Tax

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Alec MacGillis - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - On the same day as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was attacking President Obama and congressional Democrats over a tax-hiking plan to pay for health care reform, its leader urged the same people to have the courage to raise taxes on another front: the federal gasoline levy that pays for our highways

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