Video: 'Million-Man March' threatens shaky truce in Egypt

>>> the center of egypt's capital demanding an immediate transfer of power. at least five americans have been caught up in the chaos. good morning, amin.

>> reporter: good morning, tamryn. after a week of deadly clashes, today protesters are calling for a million man protest taking place behind me in tahrir. the question really is, how long will that calm last for? after days defdly clashes between security forces and protesters, a shaky truce seems to be sticking, but demonstrators not giving up their nand that the military hand over power to a civilian government immediately. it's the military, they say, who is responsible for this recent violence in which dozens were killed and hundreds injured and many arrested. among those detained in this week's fighting were five americans, including award winning egyptian american filmmak filmmaker.

>> my camera got taken. he called mae sigh spy.

>> and a prominent american egyptian activist who was arrested told me of her horrifying deal.

>> at least four or five beat them quite viciously with their stick, approximate broke my right hand and left arm. they subjected to to the most horrendous sexual assaults.

>> reporter: good news for three american students. they were ordered freed by a judge on thanksgiving day . now, despite mounting international pressure including that from the united states government , the military says it will not take its order from the protesters saying the only way to democracy will be through parliamentary elections scheduled on time.

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France and Germany to propose changing EU treaties (AP)

STRASBOURG, France ? French President Nicolas Sarkozy says that France and Germany will propose changing EU treaties to improve governance of the eurozone.

Sarkozy spoke after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Thursday, their first meeting since Monti took over amid market panic over Italy's huge debts.

Sarkozy said that the three are committed to saving the shared euro currency.

France had been reluctant to make any changes to eurozone governance via treaty changes, something Germany had supported.

But Sarkozy said Thursday that France and Germany would present "propositions for the modification of treaties" in the coming days.

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STRASBOURG, France (AP) ? The role of the European Central Bank in stemming Europe's crippling debt crisis will likely figure prominently in discussions later Thursday between the leaders of Germany, France and Italy.

It's the first time Italy's new prime minister, Mario Monti, is meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy since he took charge last week in the wake of growing market concerns over the size of his country's debts.

The meeting in Strasbourg, France comes amid signs that even Germany and France ? the eurozone's two biggest economies ? are not immune from the debt crisis that's already seen three relatively small countries bailed out.

A failed German bond auction on Wednesday and another warning that France may see its cherished triple A credit rating downgraded, form the uncomfortable backdrop to the discussions between the three leaders.

Though German and French borrowing rates are well below the 7 percent level that eventually forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal into seeking financial bailouts, they have been rising markedly in recent days. Germany's ten-year yield has ratcheted up around 0.25 percentage point over the past 24 hours since the auction to stand at 2.12 percent, while France's has been rising steadily in recent weeks to 3.6 percent on Thursday.

Italy's though have hovered around the 7 percent level for a couple of weeks now, and that's a real cause for concern for the eurozone as the current bailout facilities are not big enough to bailout the eurozone's third-largest economy. Italy's debts stand at around euro1.9 trillion ($2.5 billion), or around 120 percent of the country's national income.

The meeting is aimed at "showing support for Mario Monti and his policy of reforms," French government spokeswoman Valerie Pecresse said Wednesday.

However, a big element of the discussions are expected to center on the European Central Bank's role, which many think is the only institution capable of calming frayed market nerves. Potentially, the ECB has unlimited financial firepower through its ability to print money.

While Germany finds the idea of monetizing debts unappealing, Sarkozy's government has been pushing for the ECB to play a more active role.

France has repeatedly been frustrated in its push for the ECB to play a greater role in resolving the crisis by Merkel's fierce opposition. France's finance minister, Francois Baroin, has raised the possibility of allowing the ECB to act as lender of last resort to financially troubled countries locked out of lending markets by the punishingly high interest rates increasingly demanded by bond market investors.

Merkel also clashed with the head of the European Union on Wednesday over another proposed solution to the European crisis ? common bonds issued by all 17 nations that use the euro currency.

A European bond could promote stability in the markets. But Merkel said it would not solve "structural flaws" with the euro, and, in a testy exchange, an EU official said Merkel was trying to cut off the debate before it could even start.

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Pope envoy: Rules for Legion-linked group invalid (AP)

VATICAN CITY ? The pope's envoy running the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order says the 1,000-plus rules governing the cult-like life of some of its members are invalid and will be whittled down to a core set of norms.

The rules that the Legion's consecrated women and men live under cover everything from how to eat a piece of bread (tear off bite-size pieces, don't bite into it) to what they can watch on television to how they interact with outsiders and family members.

Pope Benedict XVI took over the Legion last year after the order admitted its Mexican founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered three children. A Vatican investigation determined he was a fraud and discovered serious spiritual and psychological abuses within the Legion and its consecrated branch ? abuses the pope's delegate says he's now trying to fix.

The Legion scandal ranks as one of the worst in the 20th century Catholic Church since Pope John Paul II held the Legion's late founder the Rev. Marciel Maciel up as a model, even though the Vatican knew for over a decade about credible allegations he was a pedophile.

One of the greatest scandals concerning the Legion's consecrated members is that for years they were told that the 1,000-plus rules they lived by had been approved by the Vatican, when in fact only 128 general statutes had been approved.

Former members have complained that they were told that disobeying any one of the rules was tantamount to disobeying God's will ? a heavy onus that created an unhealthy striving for perfection over the most meaningless of norms.

But in a Nov. 21 letter, the pope's delegate for the Legion, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, said the rules had no legal status since they were never officially approved. He said a small commission would be formed soon to "extract" from the rules only those that are "strictly necessary" for the life and governance of the group.

This core set of rules will guide the consecrated until their whole governing statutes are revised, he wrote. Significantly, this revision process will be carried out almost independently of the Legion ? part of the autonomy De Paolis envisages for the consecrated members.

The rules aren't public but were at one point posted on Wikileaks. The etiquette norms specify how to eat specific types of food: an orange (with a knife and fork); spaghetti (cut, not rolled around a fork) and chicken (with a knife and fork, except on picnics when it can be eaten with fingers).

Members have defended the rules as a way to create unity in an international movement with people from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Critics have said the excessiveness of rules masks a lack of spirituality and constitutes a red flag about the cult-like nature of the movement.

Mary DeGoede, a consecrated woman at the Mater Ecclesiae College in Rhode Island, recently blogged about some of the "idiosyncrasies" of her life in the movement, including living in a dorm of 18 women and shooting out of bed at the crack of dawn.

"When was the last time you used a fork and knife to eat an orange? How about a buffalo wing?" she wrote on the movement's blog. "I find myself alternately amused and alarmed that this type of behavior no longer strikes me as the least bit strange."

She said her family and old friends tease her about the rules she follows "but I find these odd habits endearing. Maybe it's because they're a sign of the deep unity that underlies our life together."

The consecrated women live like nuns, teaching in Legion-run schools and running retreats, youth programs and other initiatives to raise money and attract new members to the Legion's lay branch Regnum Christi.

They have no legal status in the church, however, since they're not members of a religious order like nuns are and aren't members of an independent institute of consecrated life.

In his Nov. 21 letter, De Paolis said members must now reflect on what type of canonical status they should have as an autonomous movement from the Legion.

Some "dissident" Legion priests and many former Legionary priests have complained that De Paolis isn't moving decisively enough to reform the order and that none of the Legion's superiors have been disciplined for having covered up for Maciel.

Dozens of priests, more than 200 seminarians and hundreds of consecrated women have left the movement since the scandal broke in 2009.

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Campbell Soup 1st-quarter net income falls

(AP) ? Campbell Soup Co. says fiscal first-quarter net income fell 5 percent as price increases were not enough to offset lower volume in its soup and beverage businesses.

Still, net income results came in better than expected. Campbell says it is working to stabilize its U.S. soup business.

The Camden, N.J.,-based company is trying to regain lost ground after several years of declining soup sales. Shoppers have curbed their soup consumption, stopped stocking pantries or shifted to competitor's brands.

Net income fell to $265 million, or 82 cents per share, in the quarter ended Oct. 30, from net income of $279 million, or 82 cents per share, last year.

Analysts polled by FactSet expected 79 cents per share.

Revenue was nearly flat at $2.16 billion. Analysts expected revenue of $2.21 billion.

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NBC apologizes to Bachmann for Fallon song choice

In this image released by NBC, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota, left, points to a photo of host Jimmy Fallon, dressed as Bachmann, during a visit to "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," that aired early Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/NBC, Lloyd Bishop)

In this image released by NBC, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota, left, points to a photo of host Jimmy Fallon, dressed as Bachmann, during a visit to "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," that aired early Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/NBC, Lloyd Bishop)

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota, poses at the 114th Anniversary Justice Louis Brandeis award Dinner given by the Zionist Organization of America in New York. Jimmy Fallon's house band the Roots didn't have a warm welcome for Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann when she appeared on the NBC show early Tuesday, Nov. 22. As Bachmann strode on to the stage at Fallon's "Late Night," the show's band played a snippet of a 1985 Fishbone song. (AP Photo/David Karp, file)

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann received an apology from an NBC executive after an off-color song was played during her appearance on Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night," her spokeswoman said late Wednesday.

The Minnesota congresswoman received a personal letter from NBC's vice president for late night programming, Doug Vaughan, a day after she appeared on the show. As Bachmann walked onstage, the show's band had played a snippet of a 1985 Fishbone song entitled "Lyin' Ass B----."

Vaughan wrote that the incident was "not only unfortunate but also unacceptable," Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart told The Associated Press. She said Vaughn offered his sincerest apologies and said the band had been "severely reprimanded."

Fallon also apologized to Bachmann when they spoke earlier Wednesday, she said. He'd tweeted earlier, saying he was "so sorry about the intro mess."

"He was extremely nice and friendly and offered his apology, and she accepted it," Stewart said, adding that the comedian said he was unaware the band planned to play the song. "It's just unfortunate that someone had to do something so disrespectful."

Bachmann lashed out earlier Wednesday at NBC for not apologizing or taking immediate disciplinary action. In her first comments on the flap, Bachmann said on the Fox News Channel that the Fallon show band displayed sexism and bias by playing the song.

"This is clearly a form of bias on the part of the Hollywood entertainment elite," Bachmann said. She added, "This wouldn't be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama. It shouldn't be tolerated if it's a conservative woman either."

She went further on a national radio conservative radio show hosted by Michael Medved, calling the incident "inappropriate, outrageous and disrespectful."

On Fox, Bachmann expressed surprise that she's heard nothing from the TV network. She suggested that discipline for the show's band, The Roots, was in order. She said she believed Fallon's comments to be sincere.

One of Bachmann's congressional colleagues, New York Democrat Nita Lowey, had called on NBC to apologize for its "insulting and inappropriate" treatment of its guest.

An NBC spokeswoman didn't return a phone message from The Associated Press.

The Roots' bandleader, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, has said the song was a "tongue-in-cheek and spur-of-the-moment decision."

Bachmann, who is lagging in presidential polls, has spent the week promoting her new autobiography in national television interviews.

___

AP Television Writer David Bauder in New York and Associated Press writer Erin Gartner in Chicago contributed to this report.

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Gingrich: Cutting off gasoline would contain Iran (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says the United States could "break Iran within a year" if allies worked together on a strategy instead of focusing on specific tactics.

Gingrich says that ending gasoline sales to Iran and sabotaging its refineries would lead to regime change and end its nuclear ambitions. The former House speaker says the world must change regimes in Tehran before Iran acquires a nuclear weapon.

Other Republican presidential candidates debating in Washington Tuesday night had different views of how to deal with Iran's aggressive nuclear program.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he favors sanction on Iran's central bank.

Businessman Herman Cain says he would support an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities only if he were convinced it would work.

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U.K. wins five International Emmys as Gaga drops in (omg!)

Singer Lady Gaga takes the stage before posing for photographers at the International Emmy Awards in New York in this November 21, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Kingdom won five International Emmy Awards on Monday as "American Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe received an honorary prize presented by Lady Gaga, who made a surprise appearance.

The Emmys, which honor television produced outside the United States, extended their reach at its 39th annual awards.

While the United Kingdom dominated, winning five of 10 competitive categories including best actress for Julie Walters and best actor for Christopher Eccleston, it was not a sweep as in recent years when it won as many as eight awards.

Belgium, Chile, Portugal, Canada and Sweden each won one award, with Chile winning its first-ever Emmy, for children's programing for "What Is Your Dream?"

Belgium won best comedy series for "Benidorm Bastards," a hidden camera show in which elderly people play tricks on younger folk.

The U.K. series "Accused," which chronicles the stories of suspects awaiting trial verdicts, was named best drama.

Eccleston won for his role on "Accused" while Walters triumphed for her performance as British Labour MP Mo Mowlam. Neither was on hand to accept their awards.

But the show got an injection of Hollywood glamour when Gaga took to the stage in an unannounced appearance to present the Founders Award to Lythgoe, who also executive produces "So You Think You Can Dance," calling him her favorite executive in the business.

Lythgoe returned the warmth, saying that Gaga, who wore a relatively understated black gown and sported a long blond wig and dark glasses, "certainly is, for my money, the most creatively talented woman in show business right now."

Among other honors, Sweden's "Millennium," a crime-solving drama that pairs an investigative journalist with an anti-social female computer hacker, won best TV movie or miniseries, while Canada won for its documentary, "Life With Murder," about a man accused of murdering his sister.

The arts programing and non-scripted, or reality, Emmys were both won by the U.K.'s Twenty Twenty Television for the opera-world set "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne," and "The World's Strictest Parents," in which wild teenagers are sent to live with families run by strict parents.

Subhash Chandra, the media magnate behind India's Essel Group of companies and Founder of ZEE TV, India's first Hindi satellite channel, received the Directorate Award.

Portugal won its second consecutive Emmy for telenovela, winning for revenge drama "Blood Ties," about two sisters, one long presumed drowned in an accident survived by the other.

Other presenters at the ceremony, hosted by actor Jason Priestley, included Ally Sheedy, journalist Dan Rather and Tony award winner John Larroquette.

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The brainless use of pop psychology to diss Obama (The Week)

New York ? Critics claim to get inside Obama's head, and proclaim that the president is an indecisive failure. Nothing could be farther from the truth

Emory University psychology professor Drew Westen aspires to advise Democrats on political strategy. But his book The Political Brain reminds me of a scene in Theodore H. White's Making of the President: 1960, in which?row after row of cigar smoking Boston pols is arrayed behind John F. Kennedy as he delivers the final speech of his presidential campaign, written on their faces a barely concealed envy which says Kennedy has a trick; and if they themselves had the trick, they too could be president. Westen's trick is common sense dressed up as pop psychology: The idea that leaders have to be passionate as well as rational.

In a New York Times blog post titled "Decision 2013," Westen is certainly passionate. He offers strong opinions about the shortcomings ? perhaps the "narcissism" ? of a president "tied up in knots of indecision" because "he fears precisely the emotions that allow us to choose between one course of action or another." It is a scathing indictment from someone who plainly feels his counsel and wisdom have been scorned. It is also a stunning repudiation of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's insistence that people are entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.?See more: Hank Williams Jr. fired over his Obama-Hitler rant: Did ESPN overreact?

Westen assails the president for postponing the decision on an oil pipeline from Canada across the Midwest to refineries in the U.S: Obama should have killed it outright; delay could be deceit, with the president giving his approval after the 2012 election.

Ask Osama bin Laden if the president is indecisive.?See more: Obama's stolen Teleprompter: The wisecracks

There's no doubt that the administration differs with elements of the environmental movement on a central question of energy policy ? developing new sources of domestic production during what will inevitably be a long transition to renewable and cleaner fuel. So yes, Obama may ultimately approve the pipeline. He hasn't yet, to the displeasure of an industry that ran a disapproving full page ad right there in the Times. But the reason for the delay was policy, not politics. As the State Department announced, "Concerns regarding the environmental sensitivities of the current proposed route through the Sand Hills area of Nebraska" call for "an in-depth assessment of potential alternative routes." The conservative Republican governor of Nebraska, who supports the pipeline, opposes the route. Obama did what any president or steward of the environment should. He decided to seek a way to tap the oil without endangering a critical landscape and aquifer. It wasn't Westen's preferred emotional decision to cancel the pipeline outright; it was rational ? and on the evidence, it was right.

In a piece of innuendo worthy of Joe McCarthy, Westen adds that "no one knows...what deals the administration may have struck with the oil industry." No one knows because there is no evidence, absolutely none, of any such deal. Even worse, Westen asserts that Obama made a deal with health insurance companies to kill the public option in the health care reform bill. Where is the evidence? And where were the votes to pass a public option when a bill without it barely squeezed through??See more: Can Obama kickstart the economy without Congress' help?

Westen also attacks the president for not tightening clean air standards as proposed by the EPA. He falsely claims Obama said he wanted to "study" the issue. Apparently, he didn't read the president's statement. The standards are already scheduled to be reset in 2013 and it doesn't make sense to "ask... state and local governments to begin implementing a new standard that will soon be reconsidered." It's possible to disagree with this, although it makes a lot of sense. But it's an entirely unproven and unconvincing example of chronic presidential indecision.

?See more: Obama's 'serious' Tonight Show appearance

Westen also compares Obama to "oilman George W. Bush" and his disdain for the environment. He ignores the historic decisions the president has made ? among them, an agreement with automakers to double fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 and the directive to the EPA to review Bush-era restrictions so California and other states can set tougher standards for fuel efficiency and automobile emissions.

Westen next declares full-bore phony war on "Obama's 2013 Doctrine" of politically driven indecision and delay. He blasts the agreement on the debt ceiling for mandating budget cuts which, he archly notes, don't take effect until 2013. In fact, this was an important victory for the president and hardworking and out-of-work Americans. Making the cuts this year and in 2012, as the president explained, would have endangered "a fragile economy." That's why the cuts are spaced out over 10 years, to reduce the deficit as the economy recovers.?See more: Gadhafi's death: Vindication for Obama?

In Westen's world, we should blame the president for not "catapult[ing] Democrats to victory" in 2010, because Obama failed to make sure that the most popular provisions of health care reform were in effect by, say, September of 2010. This displays a breathtaking ignorance of both politics and policymaking. The midterm elections were a reaction to economic conditions ? and Westen provides no argument and no proof that "the elimination of pre-existing conditions" would have turned the tide. One provision already in effect ? which has let 1 million young adults remain on their parents' health insurance policies ? didn't make a difference. Westen seems unaware, or doesn't care, that it was impossible to instantly extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured people. Enacting a law like health care reform is not, and never has been, the same as implementing it. Experts agree that this kind of major shift in one-sixth of the national economy has to be phased in over time. Westen's hero ? and mine ? Franklin Roosevelt, signed Social Security in 1935; the government began collecting payroll taxes in 1937; the first benefits were paid in 1940. Health care reform is more complex, with many more moving parts. Obama is ahead of FDR's schedule.

All of this politically calculated delay, according to Westen, is "bad politics." His evidence is that the president's approval ratings fell after last summer's failed "grand bargain" on the debt ceiling. This is a classic case of post hoc ergo propter hoc. Approval ratings generally ? for Congress, for Democrats, and Republicans ? declined after the debacle of near default. Obama's remained higher than Congress', didn't drop very far, and are now on the rise again. In any event, should Obama have let the nation default ? which would have thrown markets into collapse and potentially triggered another recession or depression? He is the president, and he's supposed to look out for the national interest ? and incidentally, this outcome would have been very bad politics.?See more: Hank Williams Jr.'s 'bizarre' Hitler-Obama rant

Finally, Westen launches an overall indictment of the president's character ? that he doesn't know what he believes, or doesn't want us to know. Westen "proves" this in a simple-minded way that assumes policy and conviction are as one-dimensional as a Sarah Palin speech. Does Obama believe in helping an anemic economy by stimulating demand or cutting the budget? The answer is clear and on the record ? spend in the near term to create jobs, and then cut the deficit in the long term as growth steadily strengthens. That happens to be good policy, one the president has fought hard for ? and one sensible economists agree with.

?See more: Obama's Christmas tree tax: 'Knucklehead move'?

What about making the wealthy pay their fare share? Why did Obama agree to a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts? Because in case of a deadlock, with all of the Bush tax cuts expiring at the end of 2010, a tax rise on the middle class would have body-slammed the economy. As part of the package, the president also secured extended unemployment compensation and a payroll tax holiday, which has saved 300,000 jobs, according to Macroeconomic Advisers' Joel Prakken. Ronald Reagan fervently believed in tax cuts, but raised taxes at least three times. Good presidents have to be pragmatic as well as principled. No one doubts where Obama stands on top-end tax increases; so clear is his position that he's now constantly accused of class warfare. If he's re-elected, the rich will pay more.

Westen's overall diagnosis? Obama is a president frozen in the ice of his own intellect, too logical, too rational, too disconnected from emotions. He qualifies this by saying he can't be sure of it, but then quotes an anonymous aide as saying that the president is "the most unsentimental man I've ever met." The couch here seems far removed from the patient. And the portrayal here of Obama is far removed from reality.?See more: Has the media turned on Obama?

Ask Osama bin Laden if the president is indecisive. As for delay, health care reform was delayed for a century ? and Obama passed it. The economy continues to be troubled, but Obama saved it from disaster by pushing through an unpopular stimulus plan over the near unanimous opposition of a Republican Party rooting for recession. Financial reform, student loan reform, credit card reform, the greatest infrastructure investment in a generation ? the list goes on. These are not the markers of indecision and delay. Nor is something else progressive critics thought Obama could never achieve. It was Bill Clinton, who famously felt out pain, who inflicted plenty of it by signing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" into law. It was Obama who repealed it with a masterful sense of timing and a cool and rational approach to the Pentagon.

That is a hallmark of his presidency. An effective president can't be just a partisan, appealing solely to the base. But Obama has delivered more progressive change than anyone at anytime since the 1960s. He hasn't, as Westen writes, "just run out the clock." He's moved history ahead. And he deserves better than Westen's comparison of him to the flip-flopping Mitt Romney, and a suggestion that he's just intent on keeping "the one job that matters to him" ? his own.?See more: Did Obama really call Americans 'lazy'?

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    Inhabitat's Week in Green: LA Auto Show, tidal energy farm and Japan's futuristic eco-city

    Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

    It was a big week for green cars, as Inhabitat scoured the floors of the LA Auto Show to search for the latest and greatest in green auto design and innovation. We were excited to check out Audi's hybrid-diesel E-Tron Spyder concept car, Croatia's first electric vehicle prototype the DOK-ING XD, and Honda's hotly anticipated 2013 electric version of their popular Fit. Honda also made waves at the west coast auto show with their Civic Natural Gas car, which took home the title of 'Green Car of the Year' -- the Civic is the cleanest running internal combustion car certified by the EPS. Meanwhile, Ford announced that their EVOS plug-in hybrid will be hitting the market next year, FlyKly's ultra-modern electric bikes have become a choice ride in New York City, a German museum decided to recreate an operable version the world's oldest electric car, and the US Navy successfully sent a test-ship out on a 117 hour voyage using a 50 percent algae-derived fuel.

    There were also some exciting announcements in clean energy technology this week, including a recent report completed by leading scientists that predict giant orbiting solar power plants could supply all the earth's energy needs by 2041. We also learned that France will open the world's largest tidal energy farm in 2012, and GE will provide the turbines for a $100 million wind farm in Mongolia. Also for Mongolia, a local geo-engineering firm is making plans to battle the capital's scorching hot summers by cooling it down with gigantic manmade chunks of ice that mimic naleds. London's audacious mayor came up with an equally ambitious idea -- his plan is to curb pollution by spraying the city's roads with a sticky calcium-based adhesive able to catch airborne pollutants. We also got the inside scoop from Panasonic's Energy Solution Business Director, Haruyuki Ishio, on the futuristic eco-city that is being planned for Fujisawa, Japan.

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