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...that power, they could create 20 seats for military areas. Or they could give 10 seats to Puerto Rico," George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told Politico. And the President does have other things on his plate. Despite his support, Obama recently indicated he may not go to bat for the idea, telling the Washington Post his legislative agenda is already "chock-full...
...when the chupacabras was supposedly terrorizing a rural farming community outside the colonial city of Leon, a former government vampire hunter told the local press that the real blood-sucking culprit was a giant vampire bat with a 5-ft wingspan, which he claims to have once caught in the northern mountains of Nicaragua. Bat experts and other vampire hunters insist there's no way a vampire could grow that big, but zoologist Bill Schutt says the hunter could have caught the Vampyrum spectrum, a monstrous carnivorous bat found in Nicaragua. The Vampyrum spectrum is an extremely rare predator with...
Still, there was once a true giant vampire bat and some experts think that creature of the late Pleistocene, the Desmodus draculae, may still be alive today in some remote corner of the world. Nicaragua perhaps? Unlikely, Schutt says, but not impossible. "I'd jump up and down if one were discovered today," Schutt said. The farmers of Nicaragua, however, may not be as happy...
...good half-century, "watching TV" meant one thing. It was something you did at home, with friends or family, in front of a stationary machine in a dedicated room, preferably with snack chips. You experienced a broadcast exactly when and how millions of others did--same Bat-time, same Bat-channel--or you did not experience it at all. And unless you got proactive with a VCR, you did not copy, carry or remix what you saw. This was why mass media were culturally unifying (or homogenizing): those moments that mattered, we all saw in exactly the same...
...Mundy was dazzled by Michelle Obama's story right off the bat. "You could just track the changes in our country, in terms of opportunity, for African-American citizens by tracking her life," she says. "To contemplate the social changes that had taken place during her lifetime, and the way that she as one individual had traveled through these landscapes and lived through these changes, I just found it endlessly interesting." One thing that was endlessly frustrating to Mundy, though, was Michelle Obama's lack of participation. Mundy had interviewed the future First Lady in 2007 for the Washington Post...