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Spurred by a budget crunch in 2002, Oregon became the first state to repeal its blue laws banning Sunday liquor sales. In response to the recession, a slew of other states are weighing whether to fall off the Sunday wagon, including Texas, Georgia, Connecticut and Alabama. Utah, though, is not one of them...
...same speech, Obama continued his criticism of Russia for its invasion of Georgia last August, with an allusion that was difficult to miss, though again it was carefully worded. "There is a 19th century view that we are destined to vie for spheres of influence, and that great powers must forge competing blocs to balance one another," Obama said. "These assumptions are wrong." (See pictures of Russia's war with Georgia...
...according to a study published in the July 3 Science, El Niño is changing - and that could mean more hurricanes for the already battered western Atlantic coast. Climatologists led by Peter Webster at Georgia Tech found that in some El Niño years, the ocean warming associated with the event is moving thousands of miles west, to the center of the Pacific Ocean. Called El Niño Modoki (after the Japanese term meaning "similar, but different"), the new El Niño seems to shift Atlantic cyclones to the west, resulting in more frequent storms...
...events is shifting west. It's possibly part of a long-term but natural oscillation, like the decades-long cycles that already affect hurricanes. "The second possibility is that it's an impact of global warming," says Webster, who will continue exploring the question at Georgia Tech. Either way, with the climate warming and El Niño changing, the future is likely to be stormy for the western Atlantic - which is bad news for everyone but hurricane researchers with a new puzzle to solve. "Those are the games we're going to play," says Webster. "It's going...
Sweet, who once served as a special projects officer with the National Security Agency, has been hopping between employers and even countries for much of his professional life. After serving as a nuclear submarine officer on the USS Georgia in the 1990s, Sweet opted for finance over an offer to teach at the Naval Academy, according to his mother Carolyn Sweet...