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There were several other pieces of news to sift through, and some of them were Trojan Horses. Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, said that the economic recovery might still begin in the latter part of this year. What was not so well reported was that he said it could only happen if the banking system was fixed, a process that may actually take years. The price of oil has been moving up which usually means that the market expects that individual and industrial demand will improve. It also means that it may cost $4 a gallon...
...best way to protect California's coast would be to sharply reduce carbon emissions now and hope to avert the worst of the warming. But even if we do cut carbon soon, we've locked in sea-level rise, and we need to begin protecting sensitive coastlines better than we did in New Orleans. The Pacific Institute study suggests that some 1,100 miles of improved coastal defenses - including dunes and seawalls - would be needed to protect against a 1.4 m sea rise. It won't be cheap - the cost will be at least $14 billion up front, according...
...online open-source encyclopedia, will now allow users to drag and drop their favorite articles into book-form as part of a new partnership with a German company called PediaPress. Wikipedia and PediaPress began working together in 2007, but only earlier this year did the web-to-print service begin creating books out of German Wikipedia articles. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the venture “is doing brisk business: it sold more than 1,000 German language books in its first month of operation.” Heiko Hees, Managing Director of PediaPress, said that...
Talk radio is the only medium that conservatives dominate in the U.S. Is it really shrewd for conservatives to begin their political exile by attacking the leading figure in that world? To ask is to answer...
...that the kids benefit from their involvement with the movie, [they] cannot be held to ransom if the children are unable to make it in their lives." Almost everything, says Roy, depends on an individual child and how he or she matures after the spotlight shines elsewhere. The problems begin almost immediately. "When a slum child becomes famous and comes into money," says Roy, "all sorts of relatives start coming out of the woodwork and laying claims on the money and alleging all sorts of things." To that end, the Salaam Baalak Trust tries to ensure that resources and efforts...