"A quarter century ago this week, a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island [in Pennsylvania] underwent a partial meltdown... Since that time, no American utility has dared to build a brand new nuclear power plant... [But] power blackouts, rising natural-gas prices, and concerns about greenhouse gases have changed public attitudes," writes David Francis.

George W. Bush's long-time advisor Karen Hughes hits the book circuit promoting her new autobiography Ten Minutes From Normal. While she's plugging her book, she's also plugging the president's re-election. The New York Times writes, "Ms. Hughes is the smiling, media-savvy White House representative whose book now wraps her -- and, by implication, the president -- in the heroism of motherhood.

Dave Lindorff calls it "a moment that spoke volumes last week about the spinelessness of American journalism." At Colin Powell's March 19 Baghdad press conference, "all of the Iraqi and other Arab journalists... got up and walked out, along with many reporters and camera crews from European and other countries," to protest the killing of two reporters for the Dubai-based Al-Arabiyya TV channel.