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Amory Lovins has a bone to pick with today's global economy. Most business leaders, he says, are playing the game all wrong.

"Industrial capitalism deals seriously with only two kinds of capital — money and goods — without the two more valuable kinds of capital, which are people and nature," he said. "If you play with a full deck, productively using and reinvesting in all four types of capital, you make more money and have more fun."

As CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an economic think tank, Lovins is working to bring more companies around to his way of thinking, which he terms "natural capitalism..."

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In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States. [emphasis mine]

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Made homemade cracker-jack for the first time this evening - it worked.