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...growers to replace 10% of their crops with corn or soybeans? If they did this for 10 years, we could lower the rate of the nation's No. 1 preventable cause of death--smoking--while providing more sources for biofuel. Of course, politicians from tobacco-growing states would never allow this. Gary Dillingham, HOMER...
...Internet grows, the proliferation of blog and cable news has also led to an increase in access to information. Though these sources raise interesting new issues of accountability, they allow readers exposure to more international reporting from newspapers abroad along with instantaneous coverage provided by bloggers around the world. Furthermore, we can hope to see reporters financed by means outside of the traditional big media outlets. Innovative ventures (such as Pro Publica) which try to provide investigative reporting projects to the big media may become a part of the journalistic landscape in the future...
...attendance, Smith expressed worry about the Faculty’s efficiency in the interim. “I absolutely want to get to the bottom of whatever it is too,” Smith said. “But I think we have to be very careful to not allow the business of the FAS...to be ground to a halt because of whatever it is that makes people not come.” Because yesterday’s meeting did not reach the necessary threshold for attendance, the proposal will come to an official vote at the Faculty?...
...direction’ as it has played out in the media, it’s that whatever the pundits may prophesize, nothing is for certain. Clinton has shown impressive resilience, even as Obama and others have begun to sound like patronizingly benevolent parents who, sighing, allow their over-enthusiastic child to spend five more minutes in the sandbox...
...Pollyanna. There have certainly been moments when she complained to us," says her daughter Soetoro-Ng. "But she was not someone who would take the detritus of those divorces and make judgments about men in general or love or allow herself to grow pessimistic." With each failed marriage, Ann gained a child and, in one case, a country as well...