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...reversal since then couldn't be more stunning - as indicated by a bill in Congress introduced this past week by Florida Senator Bill Nelson and Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, which would ban touch-screen voting (also known as direct recording electronic voting, or DRE) in federal elections starting in 2012. "We have to start setting a goal on this," Nelson tells TIME. "Voters have to feel confident that their ballot will count as intended...
...hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...
...home to Iceland. “It just seemed like something we had to do,” says bassist Georg Hólm in the new film “Heima,” explaining the band’s motivation for a free concert tour spanning the island nation. “Heima,” which is Icelandic for “at home,” chronicles Sigur Rós’s journey through small towns as they spread their symphonic brilliance. The movie has been screened sporadically throughout the United States...
...others in an aerial attack Friday morning. A statement put out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have spent more than two decades fighting the government of Sri Lanka in an attempt to create a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the Indian Ocean island, confirmed Tamilselvan's death...
...taken his ability to reveal the secrets of nature to unparalleled heights. Others came from far away, such as Hammer Simwinga, a Zambian agronomist who has developed local businesses so that villagers do not have to resort to poaching, and Tommy Remengesau Jr., the President of the Pacific Island nation of Palau, who has led efforts to preserve a priceless marine environment. Some were activists, like Olga Tsepilova, who has exposed the dangerous legacy of the Soviet Union's nuclear program, and some were industrialists, like Tulsi Tanti, the wind-power king of India...