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Keystone XL Pipeline: Jobs versus the Environment
A proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas has divided interest groups in both political parties and raised issues crucial to next year's elections....
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenA proposed oil pipeline from Canada south to the Gulf Coast of Texas has divided interest groups in both political parties and raised a host of the issues crucial to next year's elections. We update the controversy over the XL pipeline. Also, powerful unions jump aboard the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, and forget the "Big Crunch." This year's Nobel Prize goes to physicists who discovered the "Dark Energy" that's causing the universe to expand.
Banner image: American actress Daryl Hannah (C) sits in front of the White House in Washington, DC, August 30, 2011, during a protest against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesPowerful Unions Jump aboard 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement
Even Ben Bernanke says he can't blame Occupy Wall Street , since the financial sector helped create America's current economic crisis. The Fed Chairman acknowledged that people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and blame, "with some justification," the government's response.
Read the story8 minThe Pipeline that Divides America -- in More Ways than One
For Democrats, it's environmentalists versus organized labor; for Republicans, the oil industry versus Midwestern farmers and ranchers. For the Obama Administration, it's a momentous decision with Hillary Clinton's State Department facing charges of "crony capitalism."
Read the story35 minDark Energy and the Nobel Prize in Physics
Ever since Albert Einstein, astronomers had wondered if gravity would slow the expansion of the Universe and make it collapse on itself in the so-called "Big Crunch." But in the late 1990's, two groups of scientists discovered that it's working the other way. The Universe is expanding faster and faster, and the cause is "Dark Energy."
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