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Comedian and U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken said in a taping of the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday that the country needed an "Apollo project" to create more renewable energy. Franken took a poke at President Bush in arguing that the country should be abiding by the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty that requires 35 industrial nations to cut greenhouse gases. The Bush administration argues that Kyoto would hurt the U.S. economy and objects that high-polluting developing nations like China and India are not required to reduce emissions. Franken told Letterman: "One of the dumbest things that this president...