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<div><p>Best-selling author <a title="Thomas Friedman" href="/topic/Thomas+Friedman" >Thomas Friedman</a> on Tuesday praised <a title="Barack Obama" href="/topic/Barack+Obama" >Barack Obama</a>'s new energy team and said the next US president had to insist on a radical environmental agenda to tackle global warming.</p><p>Friedman, whose new book "Hot, Flat and Crowded" is a call-to-arms to reduce US dependency on oil and coal, said Obama's nomination of Nobel Prize-winning physicist <a title="St...

2010-04-18T05:44:35ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-04-18:/photo/switzerland-world-economic-forum-165143p/

Former Vice-President of the United States <a title="Al Gore" href="/topic/Al+Gore" >Al Gore</a>, third right and on large screen, gestures while speaking during a session at the <a title="World Economic Forum" href="/topic/World+Economic+Forum" >World Economic Forum</a> in <a title="Davos" href="/topic/Davos" >Davos</a>, <a title="Switzerland" href="/topic/Switzerland" >Switzerland</a>, Friday Jan 30, 2009. From left to right, moderator <a title="Thomas Friedman" href="/topic/Thomas+Friedman" >...