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...Boston Selling Art to Save a School In order to combat a crippling budget crisis, Brandeis University said it will close its Rose Art Museum and sell all 6,000 pieces in its $400 million collection. The decision, which the state attorney general plans to review, sparked an outcry. "It is not only unprincipled, but bad economics," said art historian Robert Storr...
Native to the Caribbean, Jatropha curcas was taken to India in the 1600s by Portuguese sailors who used the seeds for long-burning lamp oil. When Paul Dalton, 54, a Washington child-advocate attorney, decided to invest $500,000 in an alternative-fuel venture, he followed the Portuguese trail to India and found prolific new jatropha varieties being cloned in the city of Mysore. The fuel emits negligible greenhouse gases, and the trees can capture four tons of carbon dioxide per acre (which might make growers eligible for carbon credits on the global market). Says Ron Pernick, co-founder...
...principal attorney at the White House, Meltzer is likely to tackle a slew of contentious legal issues facing the Obama administration—including the widely anticipated reversal of controversial Bush administration war-time policies...
According to the U.S. Attorney General's office in Knoxville, the penalty for sending hoax-like threats is 5 years in prison accompanied by a fine. If the threat caused injury, this could be extended to 20 years. And if death resulted, the it could result in a life sentence...
Adams isn't commenting on the allegations because of an ongoing inquiry by Oregon's attorney general, John Kroger. "I welcome the independent official investigation - the purpose of which is to address those questions," says Adams. Despite the disappointment of his supporters and the calls for his resignation (from, among others, the Oregonian, the local police union and JustOut, a local gay periodical), Adams says he is staying on as mayor. But he appears contrite. When asked if the media hold public officials to an impossible moral standard, he simply says, "No," then adds, "It's a very high standard...