Around the Web [08.07.08]…

August 7, 2008 | 5:10 PM

• McCain keeps mocking Obama on the tire-gauge comment: Time Magazine explains that if Americans followed Obama’s common sense suggestion to keep their tires inflated, it would actually save more money and reduce more oil dependence (saving 3% of what we already use) than drilling for more oil (1% increase in production)… just another example of the ignorant mocking that which they do not understand
• Kenya’s Poor Hungry in the Midst of Plenty: National Geographic discusses the current and continuing food crisis in East Africa
• Wind Power Density Maps: NASA has the low-down on where the best wind-power locations are… on water
• Watch Walmart spread across the country like a virus
• A Priest Walks Into Qatar: the story of a priest teaching theology at Georgetown’s campus in Qatar

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