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To: calgal who wrote (19525)	4/26/2007 2:39:08 AM
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:33 a.m. EDT Al Gore's 'Army' Gets Basic Training Global warming crusader Al Gore has trained some 1,000 Americans to deliver his Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth” slide show to schools, Rotary clubs and nursing homes across the nation. Thousands of applications for Gore’s effort, The Climate Project, poured in after word of the training circulated last summer through environmental sites and blogs, USA Today reported. Candidates were chosen based on "their ability to commit to doing the 10 presentations and reach unique groups of people,” said project director Jenny Clad. The first group of 50 trainees spent time on Gore’s Tennessee farm. "If ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ portrayed Gore as a lonely eco-warrior,” USA Today observed, "he now as a willing army.” Members of Gore’s "army” range from Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Dhani Jones to comedian Chevy Chase’s wife Jayni to newswoman Greta Van Susteren’s sister Lise. But not everyone is thrilled about Gore’s climate change initiative. newsmax.com