Meanwhile, though airy for a tablet at 560 grams (1.2 pounds), it's not exactly PS Vita or Nintendo 3DS XL territory -- but then a heavyweight contender could be exactly what handheld gaming needs.

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The latest edition to the company's line of solar powered speakers, Rukus XL features eight full-range speaker drivers that produce stereo-quality sound and one-touch device pairing, providing the ultimate music-listening experience.

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We can create tens of thousands of new American jobs by encouraging the development of America's vast energy resources and supporting truly shovel-ready projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, which would create an estimated 20, 000 jobs, according to TransCanada, while boosting domestic energy production.

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Fresh off their own nonviolent stand outside the White House where they spent two weeks protesting the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline the re-energized U.S. environmental movement has now found an even bigger, broader stage.

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The 1, 700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project -- which would extend current oil pipeline networks from Alberta, Canada's bitumen-filled ground, all the way across the United States to the Gulf of Mexico -- exposed partisan and regional divisions within Congress during Obama's first term.

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Separately, Canadian oil company TransCanada has proposed building a 1, 700-mile (2, 735km) pipeline called Keystone XL to carry crude from Alberta, Canada's tar sands region to refineries in Texas.

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The company's Pegasus XL rocket was flown to a launch altitude of about 39, 000 feet by a specially configured L-1011 "Stargazer" jetliner taking off from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, near the equator about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.

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