NEW YORK — Instead of complaining about clean air rules, maybe utilities should cheer them.

Sometimes, the rules lead to big gains.

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NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations said Friday that conditions in Somalia have improved enough to downgrade the country’s famine, but the world body’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.

The world body moved the crisis from the top step of a five-point scale – based on the death rate – to the fourth step, formally reducing it from a “famine” to a “humanitarian emergency”.

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PHILADELPHIA — Retired Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia for more than 15 years, championing the Vatican line on homosexuality and abortion but later coming under fire by two grand juries investigating child sex abuse allegations, has died. He was 88.

Bevilacqua died in his sleep Tuesday night at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, a Philadelphia suburb, after battling dementia and an undisclosed form of cancer, an archdiocese spokeswoman said. He had been the spiritual leader of the 1.5 million-member Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1988 until his retirement in 2003.

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama made waves last week over their heated exchange at an Arizona airport. On Monday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal weighed in on the incident, noting that the tense moment reminded him of his own 2010 drama with Obama.

Jindal made a morning appearance on Fox News, saying that the Brewer-Obama interaction “brought back memories” of his experience with the president after the Gulf Oil Spill.

“It was the president’s first visit after the oil spill,” Jindal said in the interview. “We were on the tarmac, he comes down there, obviously staged. They had already tipped off the Washington press corps to watch this interaction.”

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain is backing Newt Gingrich’s White House bid.

Cain endorsed his fellow Georgian Saturday, just days before Florida’s primary, at a GOP fundraiser.

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As the global elite gathers for the World Economic Forum this week, the “Occupy” igloos popping up around Davos, Switzerland should serve as a great visual reminder that inequality can no longer be ignored.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. military forces flew in helicopters under the cover of darkness on a raid into Somalia early Wednesday and freed an American and a Dane held hostage, Western officials said. Pirates reported a gun battle with several casualties.

The Danish Refugee Council confirmed that hostages Jessica Buchanan – an American – and Poul Hagan Thisted – a Dane – were freed “during an operation in Somalia.”

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I will never be an expert on antiques. I will never be able to tell you if Ben Franklin once sat in that chair, or if it’s from Ikea circa last Tuesday. But thanks to the people I meet on the road, I am beginning to learn what is truly valuable.
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The phobias stem from the fact that religions have moved away from being spiritual to political entities, simply meaning each religious group is living in its own silos and in conflict with the other.
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Tea-making is a delicate process. We visited Emeric Harney of the ever-popular Harney and Sons, Master Tea Blenders, to learn how to make the perfect cup of tea, just in time for the winter.
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