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Bob Herbert talks about President Obama promoting solar energy in his New York Times column here ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03herbert.html?_r=1&hp

Meanwhile, David Brooks of the New York Times has written an interestingly argued article about the chaging nature of relationships in the age of texting and cellphones here ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03brooks.html?hp

Roger Cohen of the New York Times both reminisces about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as well as pines for a different outcome to the recent semi-uprising/revolt in Iran here ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03iht-edcohen.html?hp

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