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Global Warming is a subject of great concern, and many people are looking for ways to reduce their “environmental footprint.” There is much discussion about switching to compact fluorescent bulbs and hybrid automobiles. These changes will help, but they are only part of the picture. There is very little discussion of the enormous impact made by architecture and urban planning. Tim Frank, a senior policy advisor to the Sierra Club on livable communities, will talk about “Cohousing and Global Warming” on Monday, June 25. The free presentation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Fair Oaks Community Library,...

Let me see if I've got this straight: Radical Iraqi Sunni Muslim terrorists spearhead an organized "insurgency" against the democratization of their country. In doing so, they commit atrocities — from car- and suicide-bombings that have killed many hundreds, if not thousands, of their fellow citizens as well as civilian foreign nationals and U.S. and coalition forces working to help the majority of Iraqis achieve their goal of self-government, to beheadings of innocent civilians (whose only crime seems to have been that they had the ultimate wrong-place-wrong-time misfortune to be identified by their radical Islamist captors as infidels) telecast around...