The most distinctive feature of the last years of the Soviet Union may have been the way it continued to pour money into its military -- and its military adventure in Afghanistan -- when it was already going bankrupt and the society it had built was beginning to collapse around it. Successive American administrations have blindly headed down the very path that had led the Soviets to ruin.

In 2006 when I first met Julian Darley, author of _High Noon for Natural Gas_ and the founder of the Post-Carbon Institute, the world was excited by then-famous "Jack" oil field find in the Gulf of Mexico.

<p>Belgrade/Serbia - Today Belgrade High Court acquitted a group of six anarchists from accusations that they caused a general danger with trewing ...

In the first post of this series, I mentioned my initial encounter with winemaking and wine drinking on an island in Lake Erie, after which I read anything and everything I could find about wine. One of the first books I read was Leon D. Adams' The Wines of America, a book long since out of print.

CHICAGO - Chicago School Board members Tuesday tackled their worst fiscal
crisis since Mayor Daley's 1995 school takeover by granting school
officials the power to raise class sizes to up to 35 students for the
next two years.

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They are determined to believe, along with their university and USDA partners, that they are controlling erosion simply because they quit using moldboard plows and use no-till planters.