question: (CNN) -- Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground states.

Here's a look at the candidates' energy proposals:

Overall strategy

McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has proposed a national energy strategy that would rely on the technological prowess of American industry and science.

McCain has said he would work to reduce carbon emissions 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. He has said he would commit $2 billion annually for 15 years to advance clean coal technology.

He also has pledged to oppose a windfall profits tax on oil companies that, according to his campaign Web site, "will ultimately result in increasing our dependence on foreign oil and hinder investment in domestic exploration."

McCain also believes the U.S. needs to deploy SmartMeter technologies, which collect real-time data on the electricity use of individual homes and businesses.

Meanwhile, Obama laid out his comprehensive energy plan Monday in Lansing, Michigan.

"If I am president, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single, overarching goal -- in 10 years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela," the presumptive Democratic nominee told a crowd.

Obama's plan also would invest $150 billion over the next 10 years and leverage billions more in private capital to build a new energy economy that he said would harness American energy and create 5 million new jobs.
1. Who were the candidates?
2. What issue are they trying to come up wit a solution for?
3. What kind of approach does McCain take?
4. is it a technological and scientific approach?
5. what percentage does he want to decrease carbon emissions?
6. by when?
7. how much would that cost?
8. over the course of how long?
9. what tax will he oppose?
10. on who?
11. Is he against SmartMeter technology?
12. what kind of information does it collect?
13. of what?
14. where?
15. What kind of plan does his opponent have?
16. when did he reveal it?
17. where?
18. What will he do if he is elected?
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answer: 1. Barack Obama and John McCain
2. energy crisis
3. reduce carbon emissions
4. yes
5. 60 percent
6. by 2050
7. 30 billion
8. 15 years
9. windfall profits tax
10. oil companies
11. no
12. real-time data
13. electricity use
14. individual homes and businesses
15. comprehensive energy plan
16. Monday
17. Lansing, Michigan
18. direct the full resources of the federal government

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and leads the country in foreign policy issues. Equivalent to the foreign ministry of other countries, the State Department is responsible for the international relations of the United States, negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign entities, and represents the United States at the United Nations. The Department was created in 1789 and was the first executive department established.

The Department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building located at 2201 C Street, NW, a few blocks away from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Department operates the diplomatic missions of the United States abroad and is responsible for implementing the foreign policy of the United States and U.S. diplomacy efforts. The Department is also the depository for more than 200 multilateral treaties.

The Department is led by the Secretary of State, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Secretary of State is Rex Tillerson, beginning 1 February 2017. The Secretary of State is the first Cabinet official in the order of precedence and in the presidential line of succession, after the President pro tempore of the Senate. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What neighborhood is the DOS in?
2. Is it close to the White House?
3. Which former President is its building named for?
4. Is it in charge of foreign policy?
5. What is something else that it does?
6. Would one find any mulilateral treaties there?
7. What else is the Department of State called?
8. Which branch of government is it in?
9. Is it in communication with the President?
10. What might the department be called in another country?
11. When was it first established?
12. Who does it represent at the UN?
13. Who is the head of the department?
14. What is his official title?
15. Who nominates this position?
16. Does the House of Representatives have a say?
17. What about the Senate?
18. Who is the first cabinet official in the presidential line of succession?
19. Who is just before them?
20. When did Tillerson first take the position?
Answer: 1. in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
2. yes
3. Harry S Truman
4. yes
5. it negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign entities
6. unknown
7. the State Department
8. the executive
9. yes
10. the foreign ministry
11. in 1789
12. the United States
13. Rex Tillerson
14. Secretary of State
15. the President
16. no
17. yes
18. the Secretary of State
19. President pro tempore of the Senate
20. 1 February 2017

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Americas where Spanish and Portuguese are predominant. The term originated in 19th century France as "Amerique latine" to consider French-speaking territories in the Americas (Haiti, French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy) along with the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed. It is therefore broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic Americathough it usually excludes French Canada and modern French Louisiana.

Latin America consists of nineteen sovereign states and several territories and dependencies which cover an area that stretches from the northern border of Mexico to the southern tip of South America, including the Caribbean. It has an area of approximately 19,197,000km (7,412,000sq mi), almost 13% of the Earth's land surface area. As of , its population was estimated at more than floor(/1e6) million and in 2014, Latin America had a combined nominal GDP of 5,573,397 million USD and a GDP PPP of 7,531,585 million USD.

The term "Latin America" was first used in an 1856 conference with the title "Initiative of the America. Idea for a Federal Congress of Republics" (Iniciativa de la America. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Republicas), by the Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao. In such conference, he called for the creation of a confederation of Latin American republics to better search for their common defense and prosperity, without political or economic barriers between them. In the same work, he also detailed the principles under which such a confederation should work. 1. what languages are dominant in the area covered in the article?
2. what is the area called?
3. when was the area first called that?
4. where?
5. what is it in French?
6. how many square miles in the region?
7. how much of the planet does it cover?
8. what year did people start calling the area Latin America?
9. where?
10. what was it titled?
11. who coined the phrase?
12. where was he from?
13. what was his occupation?
14. what did he do at the meeting?
15. why?
numbered_answers:
1. Spanish and Portuguese
2. Latin America
3. in the 19th century
4. France
5. Amerique latine
6. 7,412,000sq mi
7. almost 13%
8. 1856
9. in a conference
10. Initiative of the America. Idea for a Federal Congress of Republics
11. Francisco Bilbao.
12. Chile
13. politician
14. he called for the creation of a confederation of Latin American republics
15. to better search for their common defense