Recognizing that giant new flat-panel televisions have become major power guzzlers, California
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The most cherished American credo is that anyone can grow up and run for high office. Carly Fiorina ’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate,

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who vowed as a candidate in 2003 to tame the most populous U.S.

The space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven returned to Earth today, ending their successful Hubble space telescope repair mission in California after stormy weather prevented a return to Nasa's home base in Florida.

California regulators Thursday adopted the world's first mandatory measures to control highly potent greenhouse gases emitted by the computer manufacturing industry.The new rules would cover 85 plants, mostly in Silicon Valley. They require most computer chip makers to slash releases of sulfur hexafluoride and other fluorinated gases by more than half over the next three years.