President Obama Announces Historic New Mercury Emissions Standards
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President Obama discusses historic new mercury pollutions standards released on December 21, 2011.
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- -: President Obama Announces Historic New Mercury Emissions Standards
December 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)President Obama discusses historic new mercury pollutions standards released on December 21, 2011.
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- -: Isaiah Wilner - "The Man Time Forgot"
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- -: Freedom and American Identity
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- -: Human Rights and Past Olympics - Hamish McDonald
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- -: How Darwin Stumbled Onto the Famous Beagle Voyage - David Bisno
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- -: Our Messy Genetic History - David Ewing Duncan
April 2, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/25/David_Ewing_Duncan_The_Experimental_Man Science writer David Ewing Duncan examines the complicated genetic history shared by all life on earth. "There are dormant genes in all organisms," he says. "There are genes in a chicken that, if you activated t...
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- -: Obama's First 100 Days: Too Much Freight on the Truck?
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