Articles tagged 'USA'
| Title | Headline | Summary | Media | Date | hf:tags | |
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 | Albright | Madeleine Albright: refugee childhood influenced key foreign policy decisions | Born Marie Jana Körbelová in Prague, Madeleine Albright (1937 – 2022) spent the war in London. After the Communist coup of 1948, her family emigrated to the U.S., where she later became the first female Secretary of State. “What I learnt as a result of being born here was that when the United States was not involved – as in Munich – terrible things happened.” | Radio Prague | 2003-10-21 | communism czech czechoslovakia politics usa |
 | Coal | Coal keeps US economy burning | The United States is the world’s most powerful economy, but most of that power is still derived from fossil fuels. When I toured the marshalling yards of Nebraska in 2006, more than half of the country’s electricity was still being produced by burning coal. Twenty years later it’s slipped into second place behind gas – but Americans still rely on the black stuff for 19% of their power. | BBC Radio 4 | 2006-08-29 | coal electricity environment trains usa |