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Typo of the Day: The Wrong Year Got Etched on the Gravestone of Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch
NBC Whoops.
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Democracy in America
Baby Formula Is Out at Tulsa Hospitals: This Week in Bans
Also, Sioux City bars texting while driving and a notorious hoon gets jailed in Australia.
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The Netherlands' Awkward Intersection of Drugs, Tourism, and Local Culture
An effort to ban marijuana sales to foreigners threatens more than just the economy.
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Charts
How California's Carbon Market Will Work
This week, over 100 businesses got their first taste of GHG cap-and-trade.
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Videos
The Criminalization of the RNC Protesters
Tampa's excessive police presence is having a "chilling effect."
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Democracy in America
Los Angeles Rids Its Schools of Styrofoam: This Week in Bans
Also, a British tractor thief gets his comeuppance and a Nigerian church freaks out over bombs in women's headdresses.
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The Anti-Environmentalist Roots of the Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory
There's a surprisingly longstanding tradition in American politics of fighting land use regulations.
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Tampa's Two Conventions
A look at the Republican National Convention and the protesters outside.
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How the Drought Is Imperiling the Water Supply of New Orleans
It's not the way you think.
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Postcard
Louisiana Preps for Hurricane Isaac
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu tells residents "the best part of wisdom is to prepare for the worst and to hope for the best."
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In Port-au-Prince, Isaac Intensifies the City's Suffering
The tropical storm left at least 19 people dead, causing flooding and mudslides.
